Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Updated for MacBook Pro Retina Display

[MacRumors]

Microsoft today announced the release of Office for Mac 2011 version 14.2.4, which brings support for the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro released in June.

We're happy to announce that Office for Mac 2011 (version 14.2.4) now supports Retina display for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Text everywhere is incredibly crisp and all key areas of the interface are now sharper than ever. We hope you enjoy this fantastic software experience!

Beyond Retina display support, the update also brings a number of other enhancements for Outlook, including calendar event reminders, Mountain Lion compatibility for signatures, and fixes for several other issues.

Article Link: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Updated for MacBook Pro Retina Display

 

[Joe-Diver]

Cool...I just got this for $9.95.....

 

[deannnnn]

Great news!

 

[pgiguere1]

I'm pretty sure Microsoft said they had no plans to upgrade Office for Retina support like 1 month ago.

 

[MCV44]

Just ran AutoUpdate... nothing there...

 

[mgmusicman94]

finally!

 

[BigJohno]

Does it stop it from crashing on start up with 18.8?

 

[chirpie]

I gotta hand it to Microsoft. Between genuinely coming up with a new/different OS experience in Windows 8 (Not an endorsement outright), and quick updates like this, they're at least trying again.

 

[adildacoolset]

Microsoft: this update will enjoy further your experience in a mac that, as of now, cannot be achieved by any PC in the market

 

[iParis]

Damn. I'm sure Pages looks amazing as well, but now Office users can enjoy full retina as well. I'm pretty much in love with anything made for retina, especially applications like this that people tend to use a lot. I'm sure this is going to look amazing, and hey, you can't have Office look that great on a PC laptop!

 

[portishead]

This makes me a little happy, but then I realized I rarely use office anyway. Oh well, good on Microsoft to do this.

 

[naeS1Sean]

I'll stick with iWork thanks...

 

[chirpie]

I'm pretty sure Microsoft said they had no plans to upgrade Office for Retina support like 1 month ago.

Well I never! It was always so reliable when people would say things like that in the past.

 

[slrandall]

Don't see it yet ...

 

[swb1192]

The update isn't showing for me.... Odd.

Also, didn't they just say a few weeks ago they wouldn't be updating Office for retina?

 

[Stetrain]

I'm pretty sure Microsoft said they had no plans to upgrade Office for Retina support like 1 month ago.

No, they said that they could not comment on future updates. Then every blog ran with a headline like "Microsoft does not plan to update..."

Unfortunately at this time, we cannot comment on any future updates

http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/15/micro...-to-fix-retina-support-issues-in-office-2011/

 

[Summez]

So many updates all at once!

 

[antipioneer]

Finally! Goodbye pixelated Word documents!

Don't see it yet ...

It's not showing up in AutoUpdate, but you can download it directly from Microsoft using the link in the article.

 

[grayskies]

sure I'm not the only one

how

Cool...I just got this for $9.95.....

 

[Gregintosh]

Not seeing this update yet either. Hopefully I can get this soon! Finally, I will start using Word again.

 

[gmanist1000]

Hopefully everything works fine on my end, since I did the trickery and added in the "open in high resolution" code I to the TextEdit file.

Anyone think I should revert to my old copy before updating?

 

[Allenbf]

The update isn't showing for me.... Odd.

Also, didn't they just say a few weeks ago they wouldn't be updating Office for retina?

I remember the same.

 

[daneoni]

So many updates.

 

[mbrannon47]

Saw the graphic in this article and the jagged edges on the Office icons and thought "that's....their idea....of retina??"

 

[phillytim]

Great news!

We seemed to have been led to believe, by Microsoft, that a Retina update wouldn't occur until the next version of Office (2013/2014).