Anti Aliasing Quit in Office X

[Pallor]

The Quartz anti aliasing has recently ceased to function in MSIE and
Office. I installed the patch update for MSIE and that fixed the issue
there. However, MSFT Office is not responding to the update to fix the
issue.

Any ideas as to how I can fix the anti aliasing issue? It is really
annoying and makes reading documents difficult..

Thank you.

M. Sagi
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Mickey Stevens]

First, go to Apple -> About this Mac, and make sure your OS version is at
least 10.1.5. If it is any lower, go to Apple -> Software Update and update
to the latest version.

From there, go to Apple -> System Preferences, click the "General" tab, and
choose to "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes 8 and smaller.". Relaunch
one of the Office applications. Does that fix the problem?

If not, make sure you've downloaded the latest Office X updates, which are
10.1.2, 10.1.4, and 10.1.5 (10.1.3 is unnecessary). They¹re available from
Microsoft.
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx#OfficeX>

(You can check what version of Office you're currently using by going to
Microsoft Office X/Office/Microsoft Component Plugin, going to File -> Get
(or Show) Info, and checking the version. It should be 10.1.5.)

Then, launch Word, go to Word -> Preferences, click the "General" button,
and make sure the option to "Enable Quartz Text Smoothing" is enabled.
Click OK, and then it should be working. You can do the same thing for
Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage, though in PowerPoint it is under the
"View" tab.