Cleartype in Office 2007

[Wayne Aprato]

Have you researched user sentiment regarding cleartype in Office 2007? There
must be many other users like myself who find that cleartype is a misnomer
and having it turned on causes eye strain caused by trying to focus on
something that has blurry edges, which describes cleartype fonts. If I
wanted blurry fonts I'd change my LCD screen resolution to a value that is
less than optimum - this pretty much has the same effect as cleartype!

I realize that cleartype can be turned off at the application level, but if
this is done the Office fonts look lousy because they obviously have been
designed to display using cleartype. I would suggest going back to Arial or
Tahoma.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Wayne,

If you use the Office 2007 feedback tool from the link below your comments will go directly to the Microsoft Office team.

You can also comment to the folks for the Microsoft Office User Interface design team on their blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh

The Segoe UI font that is used in Office 2007 is also the system font for MS Windows Vista. You can more easily switch the system
fonts used by Windows/Office on XP, but the dialogs and ribbon spacing are optimized to assume use of a certain font set.

One thing that does help some folks is to run the Cleartype tuner from http://microsoft.com/typography.

============Have you researched user sentiment regarding cleartype in Office 2007? There
must be many other users like myself who find that cleartype is a misnomer
and having it turned on causes eye strain caused by trying to focus on
something that has blurry edges, which describes cleartype fonts. If I
wanted blurry fonts I'd change my LCD screen resolution to a value that is
less than optimum - this pretty much has the same effect as cleartype!

I realize that cleartype can be turned off at the application level, but if
this is done the Office fonts look lousy because they obviously have been
designed to display using cleartype. I would suggest going back to Arial or
Tahoma. >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

LINKS for the 2007 Office System

1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie
the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at
http://microsoft.com/office/preview

2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2?
Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures)
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/

3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007

a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net