retina for Windows - MSOffice development possible?

[colibri]

Hi,

I'm a windows user doing a lot of development work in MS Excel-VBA.
Because of the display I really would like to switch to the 13" retina MBP to do my daily work (using Parallels 8 and win 7 /8), but my question is whether it's really possible/advisable to work with Windows- MS Office 2010 on a retina machine? Does Excel (charts,forms...) behave well on the retina or would I run into too many formatting/display issues?
Does anybody have experience on this?

Greetings

 

[yusukeaoki]

All I remember from my Retina (before I returned it) was horrible MSoffice support.
It was readable, but really disgusting.

 

[SchuettS]

Hi,

I'm a windows user doing a lot of development work in MS Excel-VBA.
Because of the display I really would like to switch to the 13" retina MBP to do my daily work (using Parallels 8 and win 7 /8), but my question is whether it's really possible/advisable to work with Windows- MS Office 2010 on a retina machine? Does Excel (charts,forms...) behave well on the retina or would I run into too many formatting/display issues?
Does anybody have experience on this?

Greetings

I only use word and PowerPoint but it works well. They updated it so it is retina optimized a while ago, everything looks nice to me.

 

[runebinder]

I only use word and PowerPoint but it works well. They updated it so it is retina optimized a while ago, everything looks nice to me.

That's was for the Mac version of Office, the OP is talking about running the Windows version through Parallels.

 

[lancdoc]

Office 10 Using Parallels

I am very new to the MacOs platform and chose to use office 10 using parallels. I needed to make some adjustments in setup for font size, otherwise I find it quite serviceable. As I become more comfortable, I will probably migrate over to Office for Mac, but the crippled Outlook program was a real drawback.

 

[exomoons]

The Office 2013 edition works fine in Windows bootcamp.

 

[scenox]

Excel 2013 also works with Parallels 8 very well, I use it from time to time on my rMBP 15", I've seen no formatting issues with charts, also no blurry icons or anything like this (resolution is 1920x1200 HiDPI)

 

[Spikeywan]

I got MS Office for Mac 2011 on my rMPB, and it's excellent. It has been optimised for Retina.

Check with your employer, I got it for £9 through work. I had to download it, though.

 

[colibri]

Many thanks for your replies!