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
    2023-01-23T11:45:00+00:00

    That worked for me.

    I has pressed Control + by accident and my toolbar font went large and I couldn't find a way to revert it back.

    On my URL I noticed there was now a magnifying glass with + within it. On hovering over it, it said Zoom 300%. Clicking on it, I had the option to Reset. Done this and now my Excel ribbon is back to normal.

    The magnifying glass has disappeared now...but does come back when you zoom up again.

    Hope that helps everyone :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-23T11:28:59+00:00

    Hi

    I just had the same issue, fixed it by:

    1. Disconnect PC from any dock/monitor
    2. Shut down PC
    3. Start PC

    (only put into dock/monitor after starting outlook up again.

    Hope this helps anyone out there as frustrated as I was :-)

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-22T22:05:40+00:00

    You. Are. A. Life. Saver.

    Thank you so much for posting this reply - it was the only thing that fixed my issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-18T14:11:56+00:00

    This worked for me too!!! Thank you so much!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-01-17T01:06:39+00:00

    Perfect. Thanks for the fix.

    Legend!

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