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.

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments No comments

195 answers

Sort by: Most helpful
  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-09T15:24:58+00:00

    This 100% fixed the issue for my staff member experiencing this issue.

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments No comments
  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-11T13:50:57+00:00

    THAT WORKED, THANKS!!!

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments No comments
  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T18:24:32+00:00

    This just resolved my problem after I've spent a week trying to figure it out. Thanks so much!

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments No comments
  4. Anonymous
    2024-08-23T12:31:48+00:00

    Thanks Sergio,

    You saved me the day!!!!

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments No comments
  5. Anonymous
    2024-06-24T20:54:19+00:00

    In Chrome, the trick is to click the three vertical dots in the upper right hand corner, which opens a menu, and change the zoom directly from there. Turns out mine was set to +175% and don't know how it got set that way. Clicking the + or - in the bottom left of Chrome only changed the size of the content.

    Was this answer helpful?

    2 people found this answer helpful.
    0 comments No comments