{"id":77,"date":"2007-11-28T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/28\/fixing-the-blurry-fonts-in-outlook-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T22:01:15","slug":"fixing-the-blurry-fonts-in-outlook-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2007\/11\/28\/fixing-the-blurry-fonts-in-outlook-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing the blurry fonts in Outlook 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(do you have fuzzy text in Outlook 2007? hard to read fonts? System settings for fonts broken in Office 2007? Help is at hand&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>You have to do a couple of things to fix the one bug, and I had to find all the different parts of the solution in different places, so I put them all together into one post here.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6323489610521656\";\n\/* 468x60, created 10\/12\/08 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2776044738\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself with Outlook 2007 (or any other office 2007), there\u2019s unfortunately a bug (\u201cfeature\u201d) where it overrides all your OS font settings.<\/p>\n<p>This is, officially, a deliberate feature from MS, designed to \u201cshow you what it would be like if you were using Vista\u201d. Ahem.<\/p>\n<p>This is pretty nasty, since it forces the use of ugly ClearType rendering (NB: if you&#8217;ve got an expensive LCD monitor, and good eyesight, these things can harm your wellbeing &#8211; your eyes will constantly try to focus on them, even though it&#8217;s impossible, leading to headaches etc)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also extremely difficult to turn off, as the option to turn it off is (allegedly) easy to find in Vista, but for XP it is hidden deep inside a page inside a dialog inside a button that replaces a menu item from previous versions of outlook inside a tab inside a dialog inside a menu item.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the button that it\u2019s hidden inside has nothing to do with viewing, rendering, fonts, etc &#8211; it\u2019s for formatting your emails. So, the chances of you finding it are pretty small :). (NB: there is another way. But it requires you to create a new blank email to get access to the dialog. WTF? Microsoft&#8217;s usability people are smokin some serious illicit substances!)<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the official MS post on how to do it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/926705\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/926705<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, once you do that, you\u2019ll find that Office 2007 is hardcoded to use a font that doesn\u2019t work properly if you\u2019ve turned off cleartype. Now things still look bad (although it\u2019s no longer messing with your eyesight and inducing headaches, at least).<\/p>\n<p>A friend (Rob Walsh) found this link to explain how to reset all the fonts back to the normal ones you\u2019ve been using for years in Outlook:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook\/HA101209011033.aspx\">http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook\/HA101209011033.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But, apart from that, I\u2019ve noticed 3 bugfixes already in 2007 which will help slightly reduce the pain of day to day life :). So, Outlook 2007 rocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(do you have fuzzy text in Outlook 2007? hard to read fonts? System settings for fonts broken in Office 2007? Help is at hand&#8230;). You have to do a couple of things to fix the one bug, and I had to find all the different parts of the solution in different places, so I put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}