office mac blurry on retina display

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

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 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 installed the line of code recommended in the link above to the Cult of Mac page. It worked fine until I rebooted (closing and re-openung Word might have done the same thing, as it did to the user above). Minimizing my Word documents and un-minimizing does not restore the Retina high res. anymore. I rechecked Word's info screen, and the checkbox for low res. remains unchecked. I checked the plist file inside Word, and the line of code I inserted is still there. So I am at a loss now to know what to do. I love the high res. when it was working, even if I did have to minimize and unminimize any newly opened document to get high res. to work.

Update: My RMBP went to sleep while I was at lunch, and when it woke up, Word was again displaying the docs in high res. mode. What the h-e-double toothpicks? (As Radar would say)

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.

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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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This stopped working for me, too. It had been working consistently for weeks. Now, it does not, even after plenty of restarts. The line of code is still there in info.plist and I am definitely using the correct version of Word. Maddening!

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!

Thanks, but that's not the problem for me, unfortunately.

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.

Yes and yes. All demonstrable criteria are still fulfilled, but it's not working. Thanks for your ideas.

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.

It works great on my mine. Even after closing word and re-opening. Just have to minimize the doc and then expand again. Atl least on mine. The code also works for excel and power point. Outlook already opens in hi-res for some reason.