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rendering the fonts in word 2013 is horrible!
Will Microsoft change it?
This is a similar problem like with Internet Explorer 9 & 10.
What is going on?
IE8 works good, Office 2010 also...
Then?
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Check under File>Options>Advanced>Display and check the box for "Use subpixel positioning to smooth fonts on screen" and also try changing the setting for "Disable hardware graphics acceleration"
"proof of software BUG in Word 2013, which nobody cares to fix!"
They wont fix this because they designed it this way. In MSFT's eyes it is no bug, but a feature.
Windows 8.x has exactly the same issues in all parts where the "metro gui" is used ( Startscreen,Apps and Network Connections ) and the previews of Windows 10 so far suffer also from the unreadability issue, too - even worse as loads of parts of the Desktop are now implemented using the "metro" stuff, for example the start menu, the control panel, the cortana assistant, the new browser and what not else...
They do this intentionally so it runs on crappy graphic cards and low dpi screens alias cheap tablets.. the less the cpu/gpu has to render, the faster the screen output, the snappier the behaviour. Same reason for the flatted design and the poor icons in the latest products.. its all about speed . That's all there is to WHY this is - and why it wont change in the near future as cheap mobile hardware is the latest trend and MSFT wants to run their products on smartphones,tablets,xbox,tv sets and computers alike - one version to rule them all. So they need to take the lowest powered device as "standard", with the result that everybody with better equipment suffers .
I have drawn my own conclusions that Windows 7 and Office 2010 were the last useable products we have seen from MSFT . Time to learn Linux or to buy a Mac if one cares to be up2date OS-wise.
I feel your pain.
I checked disable graphics acceleration, but unchecked "use subpixel positioning". After for S&G I did the cleartype ****. It seems to resolve my issues.
FYI:
I have an Acer M5-583P running win 8.1 build 9600. CPU: Core i7-4500 (1.80 GHz with 2core 4 processor). Integrated graphics with intel driving them. FYI my display color / clarity blows on this thing. It's over saturated and the gamma is never right.
On my Win 8.1 x64 machine IE11 looks blurry but Chrome looks fine. And I guess many others has the same experience. So I wonder, how can MS accept this fact? This huge problem remains month after month, year after year without no change. I am truly surprised of the MS negligence and ignorance.
Ah. Hmm my problem was specific to office 365's word program. I hd no other issues with the font. That does sound like a graphics issue with your browser, and the parameters which are set for it. Check out the settings for your browser. And fyi: I don't know anyone who uses IE...... Firefox, chrome, Safari, but it's been years and the last person was my 80 year old grandmother. No insult, just saying it's kind of ****.