problem with excel under parallels 8 on retina

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Ben999, Jan 22, 2013.

  1. Ben999

    Ben999 Bit poster

    Messages:
    7
    Hi,
    I work on a Macbook Pro Retina with Parallels 8 - Windows 7 and MS Office 2010.
    Unfortunately I stumbled upon a serious inconvenience: when I enter text in a cell of an Excel sheet on my macbook, then save the excel and send it to someone with a Windows pc and office 2010, then that very excel sheet has the same content but positioned differently. I include a screenshot to make things clear.
    On both Excel instances, settings are equal.

    Is this a retina/parallels related issue? Can somebody please help me on this?

    Greetings,
    Ben
     

    Attached Files:

  2. Ed Roth

    Ed Roth Bit poster

    Messages:
    2
    Same issue here, has to do with the DPI setting in Windows. If you set the scaling to 100% in Windows VM, Excel docs look normal everywhere, but the interface elements in the Windows VM are way too small to work with. Workaround I just discovered is to save the files as .XLS instead of the default .XLSX.
     

Share This Page