Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Retina Display

Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Retina Display
  1. Sep 19, 2012  Microsoft has announced that Office for Mac 2011 has received an update, which gives people who own the Retina display-based MacBooks full support.
  2. Aug 15, 2012  When Microsoft updated Office 2011 for Mac for Mountain Lion late last month, Retina display users quickly noticed Outlook was the only app to receive updated Retina.

Users of Apple’s new MacBook Pro with Retina display have been complaining that the office suite hasn’t been updated with Retina graphics (and therefore looks awful on the new machine). Microsoft initially answered this by updating Outlook with Retina graphics as part of their Mountain Lion update.

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Unfortunately, it seems that Microsoft Word, Excel, and the remainder of the Office 2011 apps won’t get the same benefit, and users of the apps will just have to deal with the current blurry, difficult to look at apps, as Microsoft apparently has no plans to update them.

Macworld UKpoints to a response from the Office for Mac Teamto a user’s complaint about the apps being “very blurry and tough on the eyes”:

Office 2011 gains Retina Display support Microsoft has added support for Apple's Retina Display to Office 2011 for Mac, and also updated Outlook with enhancements and bug fixes. Mar 13, 2020  Most of the Retina display problems have been corrected by the patch releases to the product, particularly regarding text and images in the documents. The ribbon graphics will probably not be fixed until the next full release of Office. Ribbon graphics. Microsoft has no plans to update most of the apps in the company’s Office for Mac 2011 productivity suite to support “retina” resolutions, the Office for Mac team confirmed last week on the.

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Outlook for Mac 2011 already supports Retina Display and the remaining apps will have the same viewing quality as on any non-Retina device. Unfortunately at this time, we cannot comment on any future updates regarding supporting Retina on Word, Excel or PowerPoint… Hope that helps!

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That’s code for “not anytime soon.” Microsoft has stated that they will issue a significant update of Office for Mac 2011 once the new Microsoft Office 2013 becomes available for PCs, and it’s possible that they may include Retina graphics in that update. As always, though, their plans are unclear.

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This sucks on Microsoft’s part, but on the other hand, this is just one of the many perils that early adopters often have to face. Microsoft 365 doesn't allow editing on a mac pro. Being the first to upgrade has its benefits – but it also has downsides…