Office Ribbon Too Big -- not a display resolution issue

Anonymous
2021-08-06T18:16:52+00:00

All Office application display the menus, ribbons, sidebars as way too large.

It is not an issue where going to Settings->Display->Scale & Layout, setting to 100% will fix it. I already have that set. I have also toggled the 'When using multiple displays options' several times within Office applications settings.

Everything else is just great with my display. All text within the viewing panes of Office applications is fine. For instance, in Outlook, the ribbon is huge, the sidebar is huge, I can only see about 4 emails at a time listed. However, where it displays a full email on the right, that text is just fine. If I lower the zoom level it gets too small to read. Also that zoom level does not affect the size of the ribbon or side bar. Same issue in Excel. Ribbon is huge, but the cells of the spreadsheet are normal size.

The file explorer menus and ribbon also display fine. All other non-office applications display fine.

It was working fine. I must have pressed some button inadvertently which increased the size of these items. Or maybe it was because I temporarily hooked my laptop up to a different monitor.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-04-25T13:47:19+00:00

    Solved

    Open File menu in any Office 365 App., select Info. With dialog open use the mouse wheel with the Ctrl key and resize to 100% (or other), the document screen size will not change but the Ribbon size will.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-04T05:33:16+00:00

    I have exactly the same problem when viewing files through Sharepoint links shared with others using the internet browser. I tried this workaround.

    Login to Microsoft Office 365 Sharepoint.

    At the sharepoint page, press Ctrl & scroll the roller on the mouse (up or down) to adjust the viewing page size.

    The ribbon /bar on top should change in size.

    Now click the file you want to view. The ribbon should match the size you adjusted earlier.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-06-13T19:32:05+00:00

    I found this is a browser issue, not a Microsoft issue. On Google Chrome, the Office 365 Excel ribbon was just too big. 

    I tested the Office 365 Excel ribbon size in Firefox and MS Edge, and the Excel ribbon was the correct size. Whala!

    So, once I isolated the Office 365 Excel ribbon size issue to the Chrome Browser, the fix was Super Easy.

    1. Open an Excel Office 365 document in Chrome.
    2. Go to setting the three-dot menu on the upper right.
    3. Change Zoom to 100%.

    ![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/d15f0fe0-b8b5-4048-a2b8-0e6041ca8fc8?platform=QnA

    Note that if you use Ctrl + and the mouse to expand the font size of the file's content, the Excel ribbon may or may not grow. If it does, fear not. You know the easy fix now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-08-10T09:22:08+00:00

    Hi Jspin77,

    I'm writing to follow up on this thread. If there are any updates on your side, please post back information above at your convenience.

    Best regards,

    Shyamal

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T16:15:15+00:00

    I had the same frustrating experience as most, especially when the MS Office experts kept telling everyone to go set the Text size when the Text size is already at 100% and our issue was not to make it larger. Not sure if this will work for you but after trying to look for other solutions and not finding one, I decided to see what would happen if I change the text size larger. Interestingly, as I set it to 105%, the text size of the ribbons and panels changed (reduced) to the size that I was intended to see. I then changed the text size back to 100% and it now shows the correct size that I wanted to see. Give this a try if you are still struggling.

    To change the display font size,  select Start > Settings > Accessibility > Text size.

    You will see that it is already at 100%. Slide it to 105% and click apply. Then slide it back to 100% and apply again.

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