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
    2022-09-26T01:33:21+00:00

    Thanks for this

    This option is also hidden so users might not see it in Display Setting; it can be found by opening "Settings" and typing "Make Text Size Bigger" and then clicking on the Search result to see this option.

    In my case, after an update everything was extremely big and I couldn't focus! I checked everything and couldn't find the issue, I even rolled back the driver. But no luck.

    When I checked the Font size it was on the far left, the smallest. But I made the font bigger first and then reverted to small and it fixed the issue.

    It seems that you need to remind Windows of the font size.

    It's a known Windows issue and MS hasn't fixed it in their patches! disappointing

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-09-29T17:46:59+00:00

    On the bottom right hand side of Outlook, click Display settings and select Optimize for compatibility.

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    This worked amazingly! My employers tech support could not figure it out so while he was trying I googled this problem and found your solution and told him about it so he tried it and it worked!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-09-30T15:51:19+00:00

    Finally a fix that works, Ive had a seriously frustrating time trying to sort this issue out and I spent hours on it. Well done Cookie this worked for me.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-10-11T18:58:17+00:00

    worked liked a charm. Thanks bud!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-19T15:13:07+00:00

    I had this same issue on my 2nd monitor hooked to my work laptop. It started suddenly yesterday and was severely impacting my workflow. After trying many solutions, nothing was working for me. Here's what I did that worked for me on Windows 10:

    -Closed all Office programs

    -Right-clicked desktop

    -Clicked Display Settings

    -Changed scale (my default is 150% so I just switched it to 100%)

    -Changed scale back to default

    -Reopened Excel and it was fixed!!

    I hope this helps. :)

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