How to reduce the size of quick access toolbar icons? (Office 2016)

Please NOTE that it is affecting also the latest (Dec 2015) update of Word 2013.

It should be fixed also on W2013

Thank you

I AGREE 100 percent. It is also affecting the latest (Dec 2015) update of Word 2013.

They should REALLY fix it.

Surely, of all companies, Microsoft should make the UI consistent across its programs and the OS they are designed to run on?!

Yes, it is logical to make the UI consistent across applications.  But back when the 2007 ribbon was being designed, the Office team made a conscious choice to allow the individual applications in the Office suite to make some different design decisions about the icon images and text and placement of commands on the Ribbon. 

You would think that after 25 years of existence of the Office suite and 3 major coding changes, 16 bit to 32 bit, Windows 3.1 to Windows NT, menu to ribbon, that they would have unified the user interface and even the underlying code and VBA.   But no, they continue to maintain the separate code silos.  It is sad.

Folks, our shared UX controls team have been following this thread, as well as your requests on UserVoice and are spinning up some work to address your concerns. I can't promise a specific date for getting this work out to you all, but they recognize the impact this has had on those of you who work with customized QAT and are moving very quickly.

When they're done you'll see the improvement arrive as part of the regular updates we send all subscription customers.

Thanks again for the clear feedback, both here and on UserVoice - keep it coming!

Cheers...pc 

In addition to the QAT spacing, I find it frustrating that the Minimize, Restore Down and Close icons in the top right corner are a different size from other programs e.g. Internet Explorer, Paint, Notepad etc.

Regularly I'll want to minimise a few programs, without minimising everything. In the past (Office 2010) I could click-click-click safe in the knowledge my mouse click would hit the program underneath without needing to adjust. Now, if I click "Minimize" in Excel, then click again without moving, I'm likely to hit "Restore Down" if the program underneath isn't an Office 2013/2016 program.

It might seem trivial - but, if we turn it round 0 my question is "Why would Microsoft make their Office 2013/2016 programs use a different spacing compared with Windows Explorer, Notepad etc."? Surely, of all companies, Microsoft should make the UI consistent across its programs and the OS they are designed to run on?!

If the answer is "to make it easier for touch users", then shouldn't the same logic be applied to Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Paint etc.? Let's have some consistency please!