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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Updated for MacBook Pro Retina Display
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still checked and greyed out here... The only MS app where it's not checked and greyed out is Outlook - and I don't have a license for that (using home and student here).
Anywho - apparently, MS pulled it again from Autoupdate - and the reason for that is pretty obvious: it doesn't fraking work.
manually updated and it's definitely an improvement. it's still not 100% (i.e., they missed some of the icons), but its MUCH more usable.
and for the record, I'm SHOCKED that MS got this done as quickly as they did. good for them.
and for the record, I'm SHOCKED that MS got this done as quickly as they did. good for them.
I had previously used (http://www.cultofmac.com/182025/use-this-quick-trick-to-force-microsoft-word-to-use-retina-display/), which allowed me to uncheck the box, however that 'fix' stopped working when I upgraded to Mountain Lion.
Same problem here. Still not working for me. Pixelated Word and Excel as usual. Do I need a restart?
I'm guessing MS's update worked and then Apple broke it again with ML 10.8.2. Should be fixed fairly soon - if scaling now works, it's probably just a matter of ticking some box before compilation.
Looks like that box is the problem, not sure how to fix it though... Did anyone else who can (un)check the box use the previous hack of editing the info.plist file?
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If you've installed the 14.2.4 update and still don't see retina graphics, it's because OS X is caching Office's .plist files. You can either copy/paste the Word, Excel, PowerPoint .app files and delete the originals, "touch" the .app files in Terminal, or try logging out and then back in to get OS X to reload the .plist files again.
It's similar to the method used to force the high resolution mode on Chrome, Eclipse, etc, when the MBPr first came out, and some apps didn't have the NSHighResolutionCapable key in the .plist yet.
It's similar to the method used to force the high resolution mode on Chrome, Eclipse, etc, when the MBPr first came out, and some apps didn't have the NSHighResolutionCapable key in the .plist yet.
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For anyone who has it working -- can someone screen shot how fonts look now? The buttons look great.
I completely rebooted, no change. "Open In Low Resolution" still checked and grayed. I tried manually editing the plist file. No effect. (The file *is* setting the NSHighResolutionCapable key to true, BTW.)
You're right - that WORKED. Just touched the files in the terminal app and now everything looks a crapload better. Still not perfect (well, the text does, just not the menus - some of the icons apparently haven't been updated).
No they're not. Microsoft screwed their update even when downloaded manually. And it shouldn't even have to be downloaded manually in the first place.
The update should have forced the re-reading of the plist file, Microsoft didn't do it.
If you're just here to insult Mac users for no valid reason, go away please.
Like I said earlier -- worked fine for me. Not sure if a post a few up from mine here is right about needing to "touch" the app so OS X doesn't use a cached plist. But here's what all of my stuff looks like (attached). Obviously, the one with the Word menu is post-update, the Installer menu is right before the update, and the info window shows the data some of y'all seem interested in (i.e., the low res box).
