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
    2023-05-03T08:42:42+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.

    Yes, this worked for me also

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-30T17:27:48+00:00

    I had the same problem with the online Excel and found out I had changed the zoom level of my browser window. Resetting this to 100% fixed the issue. I'm using a mouse so Ctrl + mouse wheel changes this. There's also a magnifier icon in the toolbar of Edge that can be used to adjust it. I'm sure other browsers have a similar feature.

    This was a big help. Ctrl + Mouse wheel was the culprit, rather than zooming in on the Worksheet, it zoomed in on the app itself to 150%. I've reset it back to 100%, Problem solved. Thanks again

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-03-23T19:03:02+00:00

    Davesnothere31 - You're solution works perfectly for me. This is the second time this has happended to me when upgradin MS OS. Very frustrating. Thanks. I'd love to know your background and skillset. How may we connnect?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-03-21T15:42:52+00:00

    I changed to mouse, but it's still super big in comparison to my other text, which I reduced to 125% scale instead of the recommended 150 scale.

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