Solved Appearance of Buttons in Word 2007 Ribbon

[markaz]

I have not manually changed any settings in Word 2007, but today all of a sudden there is a noticeable difference in how the buttons in the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar display. They appear "distorted", much the same way a pic would look if it were enlarged and darkened.

I checked Excel and PowerPoint and they are the same way, so something changed with Office in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[whs]

I have not seen any change in Office 2007 nor do I see a distortion in your picture.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep,
Beside you using the Silver color scheme I don't see anything wrong :/
Office logo/ Word options/ Popular/ Color scheme.

 

[markaz]

Thanks for the replies. You guys may be absolutely right....there may be nothing "wrong". But let me ask this: Is there a setting to increase the overall scale of Word (Office programs)? Let me explain the pic below:
My screen resolution is 1440x900. I maximized Word and took a screen shot (the top portion)
I found a 1440x900 pic of the Word interface in Google Images (the bottom portion outlined in red)
I did not scale either pic and added both to Gimp. Here's the resulting pic (after cropping):

There's a noticeable difference in the interfaces, as if the top portion is 110-120% of the portion outlined in red. The smaller "scale" is what I'm used to and why the larger "scale" seems distorted to me.

 

[whs]

My guess would be that those systems have different DPIs. You can change it in Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep you can also click Start and type in the search box,
dpi
or
make text and other items larger or smaller
Click on the suggestion and increase to 125%

 

[markaz]

Thanks for the replies. It did have to do with DPI, but changing the setting in Display would change the DPI globally. I've had it set to 105% since forever and didn't want to make things larger by going to 125% or smaller to 100%. Office products support changing DPI for its individual applications, so I did the following: Right click shortcut to Word > Properties > Compatibility tab > Enabled (checked) "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" > Apply. Restarted Word and it was back to the scale I was used to.

 

[ThrashZone]

Ha good idea to check that I had no idea it exited
Thanks for sharing
Cheers.