Quality of monitors for office work?

[Mark M]

Might be a bit of a daft question but does the quality of a monitor really matter for office work? Ive got a dual monitor set up and always just buy decent sized cheap monitors (all excel and similar based work).

A friend of mine has given me his monitor that he used on his gaming rig that hes just sole and whilst I dont have the specs to hand as Im at work now I was totally blown away at how clear things in Excel etc were.

Are there any benefits of using better quality monitors for office based work? Im not talking top of the line monitors but if there is justification in buying better monitors I will when I come to renew.

Thanks

 

[Mark M]

Thanks for the comprehensive reply. I'll look into the few things that you mention as I have no knowledge of monitors at all in all fairness! My dual setup at work and at home are both ran off VGA and when I added my friends monitor it is via DVI so maybe that explains why its so much better?

I'll no doubt need to upgrade the cheap graphics cards Im running to enable DVI and/or HDMI outputs to better monitors.