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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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It works, but you must make sure you click in the correct area on-screen, otherwise you're just zooming in and out of the document and not the toolbar.
On the bottom right hand side of Outlook, click Display settings and select Optimize for compatibility.
You star. This just fixed it for me as well. By habit, I right-clicked first and was confused, but left-click brought this up and fixed it for me.
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)
- 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
I am so glad I found this response. Your reccomendation worked like a charm. This has been driving me bonkers for weeks since getting my new work computer.
This worked! thank you so much! you're a lifesaver!
Thank you!!!