[Solved] blurry icons in Office 2007

[Thinkboy]

Hi all,

I am encountering a problem with Office 2007. All the icons of the menus of Outlook, Word, Powerpoint etc... look blurry. All other programs not belonging to the Office suite behave normally. Do you know how I could fix this? I tried to enable/disable cleartype, but it does not seem to care.

Thanks.

[Mike Blake]

I found threads elsewhere people had similar or identical problems you might want to checkout:

http://www.technologyquestions.com/tech ... icons.html

That one has things to try, but ultimately the thread is unresolved.
The next had something that did help its original poster. I'll quote that part of it:

There is one other thing I would like you to check.
In Display Properties> Settings> Advanced. What is your DPI setting?
Normal 96 DPI? If it's not change to that setting.

That fixed it!
All my icons are clear. Some things have become a bit smaller, like my favorites menu and my Outlook menu. Also, it looks like my Outlook fonts shrunk a bit. But overall a great improvement. The new look will take awhile to get used to, but should be no problem.

http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=59319

[Thinkboy]

Thanks for the answer. I tried to change the resolution from 96 dpi to 120 dpi and then back to 96 dpi. it does not change the icons. It seems they are too large and stuck perhaps at 120 dpi.

Any ideas?

[Mike Blake]

Thanks for the answer. I tried to change the resolution from 96 dpi to 120 dpi and then back to 96 dpi. it does not change the icons. It seems they are too large and stuck perhaps at 120 dpi.

Any ideas?

Do you mean the icon issue remained unchanged, or that what we just tried caused another issue?

--Mike Blake

[davidspalding]

A Screen shot to illustrate what you're talking about would help immensely.

In that second link above, someone suggested using the Display properties (DESK.CPL, Appearance tab, "advanced" button, where you adjust the sizes of things, including icon spacing, Active Title Bar size, et al). I use that frequently to readjust the Active Title Bar size, which also effects the systray icons. If it's too big or too small, the tray icons are "scrunched" or "zoomed" and look TERRIBLE since they only render well in their native resolution/size (they're probably bitmaps).

In Office 2003, the menu icons are fuzzy, I think this is unrelated, as the icons are something like 24-bit color, not 16-bit like we're used to seeing (I'm rusty at this arcane info, so I may be "fuzzy" on the details, if you'll pardon the pun).

[Thinkboy]

Hi all,

The problem is solved.

To fix it I went to Display properties>Appearance>Advanced and I changed the size of icons from 32 to 25 and then back to 32. The Office programs are well displayed now...

Thanks for your help.