How Can I Reduce Size of Ribbon Icons & Text in Office 365 / 2016?

Anonymous
2019-09-26T00:38:24+00:00

Since MS Office was updated earlier in 2019 (for me) I have had this stupidly sized ribbon that takes up about double the screen area compared to previous iterations of Office.  I want to reduce it, so do many other people it seems but there seems to be no satisfactory method.

Before answering, please read the following;

  1. I do not want to HIDE the ribbon, I just want the icons / text to be smaller.
  2. I know about the MOUSE / TOUCH setting.  It is already on Mouse and the ribbon is still far too big.
  3. Monitor resolution is 1920 x 1080 on my laptop and secondary screen, there is no option to change monitors.
  4. Text size in the OS is currently set to the recommended 125%  I do not want to change this as I do not want to upset any of my other (many) applications.
  5. This is only a problem caused by the update in MS Office, no other apps are affected.

Will someone at Microsoft please explain how to reduce the childish looking icons and text in the MS Office Suite so that I can recover screen space?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-07-09T21:22:48+00:00

    After trying all previous workarounds THIS ONE SOLVED IT!!!

    Thanks 1000!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-20T11:51:10+00:00

    Thank you, thank you, thank you, change the scale to 175%, rebooting and changing it back to 100% worked like a treat. What a shame it took ages of trying various Microsoft suggestions before finding this solution. Image

    You're welcome.  So glad it worked for you.  I felt your pain before until someone helped me.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-05T19:51:14+00:00

    Thank you! I've been searching for a way to fix this for far too long. I run two external monitors and my laptop, the laptop sized to 150%. When I dragged Outlook to the laptop monitor, changed sizing to 100% it fixed the ribbon issue. I dragged Outlook back to the external monitor and the ribbon sizing remained as I wished it would.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-07-16T12:03:04+00:00

    In Outlook, it's all in 'View Settings'. 

    Alternatively, do you have a >100% magnification set in Windows' Display Settings?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-18T00:25:31+00:00

    Does anyone know if you can edit the registry to change this??

    Thanks Merle

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