OS 10.9 and Word footnote numbers

Mavericks (OS 10.9) has changed how footnote numbers are treated in Microsoft Word 2011. They're now rendered so tiny---both onscreen and printing---as to be unreadable. An unhelpful "genius" at an Apple store said Mavericks changed the "font hinting." Changing the footnote style within Word doesn't really help. How do I get Mavericks to treat footnote numbers like all the previous operating systems treated them? Or, alternatively, how do I actually communicate with a real person on the Mavericks team? Having unreadable footnote numbers needds to be fixed.

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