Using terminal command to set apple display factor

I have been doing support for a friend and we have run into a problem with Outlook 2011 for Mac since we upgraded to Mavericks.
In the old version I was able to use the command defaults write com.microsoft.Outlook AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1.25
Now this command no longer works.
The approach has been documented since early 2011.
Has the command line changed or bee

As this has been a minor issue that I have somewhat obsessively been pursuing an answer for....
The above command DOES infact change the value, however it never actually effects the GUI.
You can easily confirm this by running a before and after
defaults read com.microsoft.Outlook AppleDisplayScaleFactor
It should return a 1 (or rather 1.0) before, and then a 1.25 after, or whatever value you changed it to via your defaults write command [sorry, don't post here really and dont know how to properly format the command line text]
I've tried running this command as the current user, in sudo, and even as su - all of which (when pathed properly) change the actual value in the plist, but they never actually make the change to the GUI.
Does anyone have any information as to why this apparently broke in Lion?
Hope this helps someone out there, I've had zero success with this for my users.
Edit:
Melophage - the single (or even double) quotes had no effect on making the change effective - the value still is "set" to 1.25 with or without those quote marks, it just doesn't display that change in Outlook. Thanks for the thought though, was worthwhile

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