How do I turn off font smoothing of office 2010


  1. LoveW7
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    How do I turn off font smoothing of office 2010


    I had bad surprise when I saw that MSO 2010 is smooth even under win XP.

    Any way to turn I off?

    I found few tutorials but none of these helped sofar.

    I want to turn off smoothing in 2 places: 1) menus and ribbons 2) in that text area where you type.


    Edit: what's worked on win 7 (uncheck smooth edges of screen fonts) doesn't on win xp.
    HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\FontSmoothing id 0
    Last edited by LoveW7; 21 Mar 2012 at 17:05.
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  3. Irene
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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    Does this help?
    Disable ClearType font smoothing
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  4. LoveW7
    Posts : 27
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    nope.

    I figured that in windows xp it always uses smooth font. (used compatibility mode to test that theory). So it would need some code editing for which I don't have enough knowledges.
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  6. pparks1
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    ^ Nor do you have the source code that you can manipulate and recompile.
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