If you find that system windows and text (like the START menu, THIS PC, CONTROL PANEL) are perfectly clear, but some programs like Word and Outlook have fuzzy text, AND you are using a tablet (like a Microsoft Surface or Surface Book) we have the fix!
This problem has dogged me for years. Some Microsoft Surface Tablets and very high resolution Dell laptops. The problem appears to be scaling on external monitors and I have tried everything including:
but nothing has worked. Why some tablets provide clear text on all screens and other identical units don’t has been driving me nuts. Today however, I found the solution: Set one of the external screens to be the MAIN screen, then log off and on. BINGO.
It appears that if the lowest resolution screen must be set to the primary… or MAIN. This is a real problem when you have high end computers like the Microsoft Surface 3 or Surface Book which are about 3000 x 2000 and you have an external (or two) that are the more traditional 1920 x 1080.
Windows 7 did not handle different scaling on different monitors. Windows 8 did a mediocre job of different scaling on different monitors. Windows 10 does an decent job of different scaling on different monitors, but still does not set all of the fonts to be clear unless the smaller resolution external screen is set as MAIN.
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It's great that this works, but why does it require you to log out and log back in?! Is there no way to kick off the setting without having to log out?
Hi CL; I don't know why it requires the log out/in, but it does.
Thank you so much! I had spent so much time on this issue without a resolving the problem. I had pretty much given up on seeing excel clearly on a 4k monitor. I am so happy! Thanks again!
Thank you! An easy solution and you got right to the point. That keeps me productive. It matters. Thank you!!!
wo if you follow this manual it works !!!!
Amazing, the solution just worked. Thanks!
I have exactly same issues here. i think it is just office app issue. the other app, like chrome dont have this issue
Simple solution to super frustrating and time consuming problem!!!
Can't thank you enough for this one!!!
I never leave comments but this simple change had such a dramatic effect I couldn't leave without saying thanks. I had just upgraded to Office 2016 and it was that fuzzy I got a headache. Thanks again.
Thanks a lot. I have a Dell XPS 13 2 in 1 with the dell dock connected to a 1920x1080 Dell monitor. When I did your suggestion, Outlook etc all came up non fuzzy and now looks great. Also rescales when I move apps back and forward between the hi res laptop display and the lower res monitor.
Thank you VERY much for posting this solution. So simple, and it worked immediately. THANK YOU! The poor scaling / fuzziness was driving me nuts.