office mac blurry on retina display

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Go to System Preferences, open Displays, and under Resolution, check the "Default for display" box.

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I have stopped using Office for Mac 2011. It is way too slow for my liking. I am now happily using OpenOffice (Apache OpenOffice 3.4) and it works and looks great on my new Retina Macbook Pro 15. http://www.openoffice.org/

I have found that the best solution for me when writing in Word is to do the bulk of it in Pages and save as a Word document. This is a pain in the tail but Microsoft seems to be sitting on this one. You would think that will school about to start they would resolve this by now.

Everyone else seems to be making their apps with the updates, even Evernote!

I had the same problem and found a great easy solution. I changed to Libreoffice and I can honestly say that it is awesome and I am more than pleased with it. So I recommend to get the rMBP and install Libreoffice as your main word processor (It supports MSWord files and it is free). See attached screen shot. Pax

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If you perform a "get info" on the MSWord program file in your Application folder, is the checkbox for low res. still unchecked? I assume it is, but I thought it worth asking, just to be sure. Also be certain that the copy of Word you edited is actually the one that's opening, and not some other copy you produced while making the edit. That's all I got, and I admit it's not much. Best of luck.

I am using open office and it looks great. I just save it as a word document and I make sure to open in word and check to see if anything converted wrong and correct it.

FWIW:

The fix stopped working for me because I change my Dock preferences. I chose to have icons minimize into the program icon rather than into the Dock. Check your Dock preferences in the System Preferences to be sure "Minimize windows into application icon" is unchecked. Of course there may be other causes of the fix suddenly not working, but this is what had killed the fix in my case. Sure looks good when it works!

No - it does not consistently make use of the full retina capability. As you say some aspects like the style icons have not been upgraded. Most, but not all, is retina.

Given the premium price of the product, I think Microsoft needs to do a better job with regards office and retina screen compatibility. Also I don't think it is satisfactory that a download direct from the website of a major company is not the latest version.

At least the update fix improves most of the display, which is very disapointing before updating.

Here is the solution... It works.

http://www.cultofmac.com/182025/use-this-quick-trick-to-force-microsoft-word-to- use-retina-display/?utm_medium=twit&utm_campaign=spread-us

I have not experienced that and I use word all the time, it also worked with excel. Make sure the new version of word is set as you default app for opening word docs. That may be the problem. You might be opening docs with the old version. Hope that fixes it, if not I don't think you did something correctly.

With some applications, the Retina display isn't optimized. You can be certain that updates will address the problem.

kh_mastermind wrote:

I updated to the 14.2.4 version. Word, Powerpoint and Excel are still blurry. Anyone suggestions?

Restart your computer

Aha! I have discovered that one must set Dock behavior in Settings so that documents minimize into the right hand side of the Dock rather than into the program icon. Once you have modified the Word plist file, a Word doc will open up in low res., but if you minimize it and then unminimize it, it will appear as high res. Why changing the place docs minimize to should affect this, I have no idea.

I too have noticed this, there are some areas that have not be retina-ised, most notably (in word) the style box on the home tab and the page layout buttons in the bottom left hand corner, very annoying as I bought a retina laptop to be looking at a beautiful crisp display and I'm just not getting that with word.