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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.
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Exact same issue and my IT group can't figure it out. Just hooked new laptop up to these monitors and same thing is happening. The ribbons in outlook, excel, etc. look HUGE. When I use a browser on those screens everything is normal. Can anyone help?!
Have a look on my last reply, it might work for you
Yesss!!! You did it! My problem is finally fixed. None of the experts had any idea what was wrong but this easy fix worked right away. Such a relief
Thanks!!! It worked perfectly. I did need to restart Outlook for all of text in the ribbons to change, but after that, all worked well.
I hope MS is monitoring this chain, and will update the software.
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Thank you! I have been searching online for a solution to my problem for weeks and finally I found it! And it was so easy at the end of the day ;-) Thank you, Chris! :-)