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
    2022-04-26T20:47:24+00:00

    Try this, it worked like a charm for me:

    1. Copy the text from below to Notepad and save it to a file with .reg as the extension.
    2. In Windows Explorer double-click the file.
    3. After the update runs, restart your computer.

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
    "IconTitleWrap"="1"
    "Shell Icon Size"="32"
    "BorderWidth"="-15"
    "CaptionFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\
      00,00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
    "CaptionHeight"="-330"
    "CaptionWidth"="-330"
    "IconFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,\
      00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
    "MenuFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,\
      00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
    "MenuHeight"="-285"
    "MenuWidth"="-285"
    "MessageFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\
      00,00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
    "ScrollHeight"="-255"
    "ScrollWidth"="-255"
    "SmCaptionFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,\
      00,00,00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
    "SmCaptionHeight"="-330"
    "SmCaptionWidth"="-330"
    "StatusFont"=hex:f4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\
      00,00,00,01,00,00,05,00,53,00,65,00,67,00,6f,00,65,00,20,00,55,00,49,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
      00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00
    "AppliedDPI"=dword:00000060
    "PaddedBorderWidth"="-60"
    "IconSpacing"="-1125"
    "IconVerticalSpacing"="-1125"
    "MinAnimate"="0"

    Is there a way to revert these changes?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-04T10:03:20+00:00

    This happened too me and so I contacted Microsoft support. The fix is too change the TEXT size under Settings>Accessibility>Text size, change it too something larger then click apply, then you can change it back too 100% size and click apply. All of your icons will be normal and the in like , office, edge etc. will be fixed as well. Restart for changes too take effect or just restart the PC.

    This is the only fix that worked for me - tried all the above. Thank you!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-05-19T12:17:20+00:00

    Thank you!
    This worked for me. Has been driving me nuts for 3 days and had so far stumped our IT helpdesk. I can finally see more than 5 emails at a time in outlook!

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-05-25T00:12:23+00:00

    This worked! I had the text size turned up. However, now my finder text is smaller (file lists/text under desktop icons). Is there a way to have non-huge Office toolbars and have a larger text throughout the system? Never had to choose in Windows 10. Just thought I'd ask. Many thanks.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-06-09T14:40:56+00:00

    It worked! Great advise.

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