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
    2022-08-10T13:33:38+00:00

    What browser are you using?

    Does it happen in other browsers? Try all three (FireFox, Chrome, Edge). I tested the Office 365 Excel ribbon size in Firefox and MS Edge, and the Excel ribbon was the correct size. I found this is a browser issue, not a Microsoft issue. On Google Chrome, the Office 365 Excel ribbon was just too big. 

    If it is Chrome, try this.

    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%.

    See image: https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/d15f0fe0-b8b5-4048-a2b8-0e6041ca8fc8?platform=QnA

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-16T12:48:17+00:00

    This worked .. after being sent a new laptop it happened this morning when i had to reboot the laptop. and the reg code above did not work but this did ! moving the font to larger then back to normal fixed it !! thank you so much! I will share this with my IT team who had no idea how to fix this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T21:21:07+00:00

    I am on a mac on Chrome using O365. I do not see this menu choice in online word. help!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-20T09:50:21+00:00

    Great! This worked for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-25T01:51:30+00:00

    Open settings > Ease of Access > "Drag the slider until sample text is easy to read, then click apply" drag the bar to make the text bigger.

    Once the computer refreshes drag the text back to the smallest position.

    This worked for me, hopefully it will work for y'all.

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