Adding Dell Monitor with Macbook Pro

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Adding Dell Monitor with Macbook Pro

Hello everyone,

I have a difficult situation, I have a macbook pro that I bought couple of years back, I have Yosemite version 10.10 version installed on my machine, I want to use an external Dell monitor with this laptop using display adopter port, my monitor does turn on and start displaying stuff as and second monitor however since I am reading and writing a lot of articles when I move any document or outlook or anything to the second monitor ( Dell ) , it is not fitting properly to the screen, the documents are off either from one side of the screen or the other or sometime both.

So what I am asking if how can I adjust the second screen so that the display setting are the same, now please note I tried to adjust the display setting on the second monitor but its not showing me the same resolution as macbook pro.

Please help!!!!

Kind Regards,

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), null

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 2:02 PM

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Answer 1

Jul 29, 2015 2:05 PM in response to Mian146

What model Dell monitor do you have? Its very possible the Dell monitor simply cannot handle the same resolution as the MacBook Pro.

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Jul 29, 2015 2:14 PM in response to Phil0124

I have tried several monitor both wide screen and normal screen, they are all latest monitors by Dell.

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Jul 29, 2015 2:18 PM in response to Mian146

O.k, so then what resolution is set for the MacBook and the Dell Monitor under Apple Menu->System Preferences->Displays

You can tick the "Scaled" option to get a list of specific resolutions.

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Aug 4, 2015 11:09 AM in response to Mian146

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply I am setting this up for someone at work. Since he is available today so what I will do is I will follow the scaled image process that you advised and will get back to you today.

Kind Regards,

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