office mac blurry on retina display

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

Just got the new 13 retina today. Installed office 2011 and update to 14.3.8

Some parts of the Office menus are still blurry and slideshow as well.

Is it normal or anything I can do to make it right?

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.

Ask Microsoft to improve Words a Retina compatibility

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'

Thanks so much for your post! Where did you see the update for microsoft office?

Go to the pull-down menu .. [Help]

Click ... [Check For Updates]

I HAVE JUST FOLLOWED THESE STEPS AND THIS SOLVED THE PROBLEM

MY MS OFFICE FOR MAC IS NOW LOOKING AS CRISP AND SHARP AS SAFARI

Thanks mate!

But does it ALL look sharp, look at the font menu, the style menu and the page layout options in the bottom left hand corner, are they all crisp because they're not on my version (latest).

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.

Powerpoint for me is still blurry for me on retina. I'm running 14.3.9, have uninstalled, reinstalled, updated, did the copy-to-desktop fix, did the terminal date-trick fix, ensured unchecked box in powerpoint to not run in low res. All this but still I have blurry menus, decks, and certainly graphics. I have no idea if the images in the decks I do in powerpoint end up being actually blury or now, so I print to pdf to be sure. It's a pain in the neck for me, as I use powerpoint daily. All my other office apps are fine, all run high res and are clear.

Any tips anyone? help!

Followed all the suggestions (and have the latest update installed), still Word being pixelated here and there (e.g. styles menu)

Anyone can HELP?

exactly the same problem here

Office' 11 update 14.4.3 (140616)

and all images paste on powerpoint look horrible... 😟

Retina 13" early-2013

this worked for me: http://retinizer.mikelpr.com

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

Please note that if you watch movies online via Apple TV, your Resolution can go back to Scaled