Anyone had an issue where the Word playbook template text looks extremely jagged?

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1. I take that back, a lot of fonts look awful in the document. And now i’m actually noticing that fonts in windows, generally, look like shit. My graphics seem fine the way they are setup.

2. have you tried to print?

3. Printing comes out fine. It seems to be a display option or driver issue but I’ve checked everything I can think of.

4. Maybe you should check the Clear Type rendering options for the video card.

5. Did that. Either way, on or off, it’s bad. Already messed with performance settings.

6. Tried this one already?

   http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx

7. Yep. It’s as if anti-aliasing is turned off or something.

8. So you did all the possible logical troubleshooting already.

   Does clear type work in browser?

9. It’s weird, because in G+, text looks fine. But on forum sites or other sites, the text looks as though anti-aliasing is completely off. Also throughout windows, text looks strange in general.

10. I think that G+ forces cleartype somehow (I used to have it off, but page was activating it anyway).

11. Sounds like you have a system based issue. There are a few likely culprits;

    1) Video card drivers. These could be affecting the way fonts are handled system wide. Make sure you have the latest drivers for your video card installed. If you do or this does not fix the problem, try an older stable release of video drivers.

    2) Windows 7 has an option in its Visual/Performance options for Font Smoothing. Have you checked to see if this makes a difference (on or off)?

    3) ClearType. This is the most likely candidate for such issues. I checked google and found a user who recommend starting up the ClearType tools (Run -> cttune.exe). Uncheck the ClearType box and then just keep hitting next. Once it finishes has your font behavior changed at all?

    4) Windows Updates: Are you completely up-to-date with service packs and various system updates? Make sure you’ve installed everything. This has been known to fix this issue, though this is not commonly a cause of the font problem.

    5) Monitor Drivers: Some monitors have drivers. Check the manufacturers website to make sure you aren’t missing these.

12. I’ve done or checked all of those. It seems that Word continues to be an issue but the rest appears somewhat resolved. Text on non-google websites is still strange. Never had a problem quite this bad with text that didn’t resolve with at least one of those,

13. If the rest is resolved but Word persists, maybe you should consider reinstalling Word. Its possible whatever system configuration created the issue was read and used by Word during its installation process. I’m grasping at straws here but when stuff like this comes up for me, a fresh install is the first step I take if I cannot resolve the issue through system or application setting modifications. I feel for you Damian =(

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