office mac blurry on retina display

I downloaded Microsoft Office in January of 2014. Both ribbon bar and text in documents very fuzzy and retina display clearly NOT supported by microsoft office.

I'm now updated to version 14.3.9 of microsoft office and the retina display is now working for all office applications.

That is the fix, but ...

Clearly ridiculous that I can download microsoft office, direct from microsoft, and it needs to be updated before it works properly ! Obviously any download from a major software company should always be the latest version.

If you are having problems with retina in microsoft office, solution is to click 'update'

Try this (it worked for me)

http://blog.officeformac.com/retina-display-support-is-here-for-office-for-mac-2 011/

chasesoss wrote:

Does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with Office Mac being so blurry on the new retina display? So frustrating! Want to take it back. Love the computer so far though!

Update to the latest version of Office (14.2.4) support for Retina displays has been added.

This morning I updated my Microsoft Office 2011 to version 14.2.4 - and in the 'readme' documentation it states support now for Retina Display Macs. I believe all one must do now is update, and restart.

Good luck!

[EDIT: Article linked: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/microsoft-office-2011-for-mac-receives-retina-displ ay-support-20-09-2012/ ]

There is an update from Microsoft 14.3.8 that solves this issue across the software suite. Just do an update check.

Unfortunately it simply isn't going to look as good as it did on the lower resolution displays, until Microsoft updates Office. I wouldn't hold my breath, though: I would be very surprised if this technological shift was simple.

[If it were, you'd see Apple's apps updated already, and very few have been]

Changing the resolution of the Mac isn't much help, at least for me: the UI and other text in Word and other apps is simply unreadable, and changing resolution 10x a day isn't a solution.

The text in apps (like Safari and TextEdit) that DO support Retina is fantastic, just like the iPad. So my plan, wonky as it is, is to use other apps to do my primary writing until there's a good word processor that supports the Retina display. That's harsh, because Word is perfect for me. But I can't spend hours writing while looking at text that blurry. Gives me a headache.

Yes -- LibreOffice works very well on the Retina MacBook Pro. I switched to that and have been using it to write constantly for the past few days. Took a bunch of setup tweaking to get it to look and feel the way I want it to, but that wasn't so bad. It's really quite good, apart from minor bugs I've been able to work around.

The next version of LibreOffice should be coming out this month (they're iterating quickly, it seems) and has some nice visual improvements. Based on what I'm reading, I'd be surprised if OpenOffice retakes the lead any time soon.

I'd also be surprised if MS releases a Retina-compatible version of Word any time soon--though I'd be happy if they did. But if LibreOffice continues to make progress on the Mac, who knows? I may never go back.

Although the application is in Hi-D now when working on the slides and text (image not 2x up tho), everything went back to blurry during presentation mode (Play mode)!

The only workaround now is to open the file using Keynote for presentation.. of course many of the settings will be changed and probably would get you mad. I don't know if MS will continue to service the 2011 to make it 100% compatible with retina, but it is definitely not yet ready status quo!

I had the same problem, gave me a very bad headache during the lecture,

Just 'Mannually check for update" and it appeared beautifully.

I'm happy now.

Right now the only apps available to take advantage of full Retina display are Apple apps. Try the 1440xwhatever resolution and see if you still have the same problem. If it doesn't work, zip over to http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac and see if other Retina Mac users are having the same problem and offering any solutions.

Clinton

The best short term fix is to set the display resolution to more space (1920x1200) and then set the zoom to 200% in Word. Having it at the nominally high resolution makes the blurriness less obvious. I was annoyed with it too till I looked back at my Mid-09 MBP Word screen and realized that the Word text on the old screen actually looked worse than the 'fuzzy' new one.

My way aound this is ti use Nisus Writer Pro. It has almost all of the power of Word and supports the retina display as it uses Apple's text engine, if necessary documents can be saved in MS Word format - problem solved for me.

I have a MBP retina which is about to be returned (see the thread on burn-in and yellow screens!), but that aside, I have been having a little play with it while it's still here to see if I would want to buy mac office (if I ever get a MBPr with a good screen).

I downloaded the 30 day mac office trial to see what it looks like and it really is terrible! I tried out Open Office instead and was pleasantly surprised. So I reckon until Microsoft update office I will just be using the free open office program.

Now I just have to get another new MBPr and pray for a Samsung screen 😟

I have the same. But minimise/maximise word after new start helps. Strange but it works.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57516767-263/get-office-2011-working-in-ret ina-display-mode/

I'm not computer smart at all, but this completely fixed the problem.