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Smooth fonts in Windows 7 ?

I upgraded to Office 2013. Fonts look awful in it. I reinstalled Windows, I even tried a different graphics card! The same problem... Office 2013 vs Wordpad
http://tinypic.com/r/118ht0k/5


I noticed that e.g. in ebay when I want to list a new item, fonts look like this (pasted to wordpad on the right)
http://tinypic.com/r/jaxgle/5

Why is that? I tried two graphics cards and a fresh install of Win7 every time... I am confused here. It is acceptable in ebay etc, it is NOT acceptable in Office. When I zoom in, it is better... I tried to follow some online tips: disable hardware acceleration etc. I used to have office2010 it was fine...but I can see it applies to my system/default fonts in some places as well... Of course I went through 'cleartype' options.

Disabling 'aero' does not help

Can you upload screenshots here, all you have to do is click on the image icon.

 

Also check if this helps:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-word/why-is-the-font-so-bluurry-in-office-2013/120c7c7f-55c8-4b3c-853e-674dd2db38b9

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Office vs wordpad


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What I am going to tell you will be very weird: I connected to this PC using VNC and... fonts are great!!!! But it is not just my screen as you can see the screenshot above... It looks great when I connect to it using VNC... it makes no sense to me... I opened a case with MS, not sure if they figure it out?

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Office 2013 does not use the OS Settings. It has its own Rendering mechanism. It Looks bad on every Windows Version at least on traditional Flatscreen PCs and Notebooks, that's all I can say. As Office Comes preinstalled on the surface tablets it might be very well the case that the font Rendering Programmers had Tablet Screens in mind .. Metro UI in Windows 8 the same, although Win8 can be tweaked, but Office is a different beast.

 

What you can do now  is open Word/Excel/PowerPoint and visit the program's advanced Options :

 

- deactivate Hardware Rendering

 

- use subpixel positioning

 

These two Settings can Change the way Fonts look. If this doesn't help, then there is no hope unless Microsoft delivers some patch or update for this mess.

Reality is just an illusion, but it still contains errors that we need to fix ;-)

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Last updated March 30, 2025 Views 442 Applies to: