Customize Ribbon Size to Make it Smaller

Anonymous
2013-08-26T01:47:56+00:00

I'm extremely disappointed that Microsoft has made the ribbon so HUGE and does not appear to offer any way of customizing its size other than completely collapsing it.  Between the menu bar, the ribbon, the formula bar, etc. almost HALF of the screen real estate is non-content. Microsoft has it backwards, thinking the more screen space should go to the user interface rather than the content. This is maddening, and it's extremely frustrating that Microsoft doesn't allow me to customize the size of the ribbon to maximize content. Does anyone know of a work around?

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-03-07T06:08:16+00:00

    How do I make the ribbon size smaller?

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-01T23:11:40+00:00

    I have 2 monitors that are 29 inches (27 inches viewable as they like to count the bevel, the area around the outside of the monitor, as part of the dimension just to have it sound larger and more useful than what it really is), and can still only have the 1980x1080 resolution.  Why do they seem to max out the resolution at the 1980x1080, when in the past, I use to have more compacted resolution settings for smaller screen sizes (i.e., 1600x1200 for 21 inch monitors, 19 inches of that being viewable).  As such, those toolbars are still too big as compared to what they were like with MS Office 2000 - 2003.  That's not to mention the color schemes of MS Office 2013 and later takes me back to what Windows use to look like in Windows 2.0.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-09-04T20:41:39+00:00

    You win today. And tomorrow. That was insanely aggravating. THANK YOU.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-12-12T06:28:47+00:00

    I agree that the Ribbon in Word is way to big. However, at least in my case do not think or agree that Microsoft has it backwards & or just made it too big. I have a new Microsoft Surfacebook and somehow the size of things such as some fonts and icons seems to me to have been off since I got it. Now I had to delete the newer copy of Microsoft office that came with my computer in order to be able to install and use Office Home & Student 2013 the only license I have. Unfortunately, though, after I was finally able to install it and opened it for the first time to start using it, the ribbon looked huge. About double the size it normally looks like on every other computer I have seen and or used it on. I does not look like Microsoft just made it big or that is just the way it is supposed to be. It just does not look right. I have Installed & used this same license of Microsoft Office Home & Student 2013 of several computers & none of them ever looked like this! They absolutely just did not look this big! The problem now is that even though this is a technical problem with the program, I don't know if there is anything that can be done about it since I read it is not possible to change the size of ribbon. This is just unacceptable! 

    Jennifer

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