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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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Been fighting with this issue for several months, and this solution fixed it! Thank you so much for sharing!
You are a star - Thank You!!
Open settings > Ease of Access > "Drag the slider until sample text is easy to read, then click apply" drag the bar to make the text bigger.
Once the computer refreshes drag the text back to the smallest position.
This worked for me, hopefully it will work for y'all.
This done it for me. The caveat to remember I guess is that browser zoom size is per tab (at least on Chrome). And it stores the zoom size for next time.
So if you adjust the wrong tab zoom it wont fix the page.
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.