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Retina Update for Microsoft Office 2011

Underwhelmed after upgrading your Mac Office 2011 with the new “retina” update?

sniderbr on the MacRumors forum suggests:

If you’ve installed the 14.2.4 update and still don’t see retina graphics, it’s because OS X is caching Office’s .plist files. You can either copy/paste the Word, Excel, PowerPoint .app files and delete the originals, “touch” the .app files in Terminal, or try logging out and then back in to get OS X to reload the .plist files again.

Logging out didn’t work for me, but “touch”ing the files did.

And here are the commands I ran from the Terminal application. Sudo will require your password (and probably you having Administrator rights).

$ sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Excel.app/ $ sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Outlook.app/ $ sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft PowerPoint.app/ $ sudo touch /Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app/

September 25, 2012/by Brandon Muramatsu

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Brandon Muramatsu builds connections at the intersection of learning, technology, innovation and scale. His work focuses on online and digital learning to improve teaching and learning with a focus on open education. He has been involved in the development of learning technologies and education technologies, curriculum and course development, open education / open educational resources and educational digital libraries over the last 25+ years. His work has a focus on engineering and STEM education, both nationally and internationally, and at all education levels.

Brandon Muramatsu leads the design and implementation of local, national and international strategic education initiatives at MIT for MIT Open Learning, and he consults on open education and educational innovation and technology.