Thursday, September 20, 2012

Get Office 2011 working in Retina Display mode


Yesterday Microsoft released an update for Office 2011 for Mac which has added high-resolution support for Apple's Retina Display; however, after applying the update a number of people are finding the Office programs still open in low-resolution mode. In some cases one or two of the Office programs appear to run in Retina mode, while the others do not.


It appears the system simply is not recognizing the new high-resolution capabilities of Office. If you get information on the program in the Finder (select it and press Command-I), you will see the "Open in Low Resolution" setting is grayed out and checked, which is the default behavior for programs that do not support Retina displays.



Opening the Info.plist file for each application shows that each does contain the appropriate key and value for triggering high-resolution mode (click for larger view).


(Credit: Screenshot by Topher Kessler/CNET)

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