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
    2023-06-21T11:00:37+00:00

    Ok I finally found a solution that worked for me.

    The problem arouse after an update and involved all the offices app.

    Makes no sense but have a try:

    • Desktop --> Display settings
    • Search for "Make text size bigger" and click

    You probably have the "Make text bigger" already at minimum value, nonetheless enhance it (105% or something like that)Image

    • Apply
    • Now it should be back working, is it? Now you can come back at 100% and it's going to be displayed properly.

    **Edit: Try to restart one of the application affected, if opened

    Hope it helps

    Amazing thx - this started yesterday for no apparent reason and couldn't reverse it.

    No advice anywhere for a solution, but this worked!!

    Who knows why as you say.

    Apart from a couple of menu items in PPT, which stayed annoyingly large.

    But that was resolved by using 'make everything bigger' - up to 125% then back to 100%

    As a general solution that may also work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-12T14:04:38+00:00

    This worked for me, thanks! The issue was driving me crazy!

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-15T14:38:39+00:00

    I was hesitant to do this but saw someone else respond that it worked for them and I wanted to report that it worked for me too! This is good advice and worth trying. Thanks @Davenothere31

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-11T01:39:51+00:00

    FYI this worked. After two hours on the phone with Microsoft and no resolution, this blog was the fix! Thank you for helping us out! HOWEVER: When you do this, you cannot make the icons on your desktop larger (as I prefer them). You have to choose between a normal looking Outlook OR larger desktop icons.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-08T23:13:07+00:00

    Try COMMAND + 0 too return too default zoom level

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