Any way to make Word less huge??

Telesphoreo · May 3, 2022 at 8:05 AM

I've gone through every single setting on Office 365 and I can't seem to figure out make the ribbon smaller. All I know is that this is Office 365 provided by university so it's not the standalone Office 2021 app. If it were, I simply would revert to 2019 where the ribbon wasn't ridiculously huge.

https://packs.smokes-crystal.rocks/xpMAJ7ajlDkY.png

This is what I'm talking about

On a normal document, it takes up so much real estate
https://packs.smokes-crystal.rocks/XQmQy4fdoV2S.png

I don't have any screenshots on hand but I know that the ribbon wasn't this fat before. This is seriously irritating because I'm currently working on a 20 page paper and I need constant access to the ribbon but I feel like it takes up half my screen.

This is on Windows ARM on my M1 Mac

Tizz · May 3, 2022 at 9:18 AM

Is it still possible to double-click on the active tab to make the ribbon menu auto-hide?

Allink · May 3, 2022 at 9:19 AM

Holy shit, didn't know they made the ribbon that large in Office 365.
I know LibreOffice has a much smaller bar & good compatibility with Word documents but I'm not too sure if you'd want to switch to that.

Telesphoreo · May 3, 2022 at 9:41 AM

↩ Allink that's not an option given that this is not plain text. it has many graphics, table of contents and figures, custom captions, and section breaks and I simply don't have the time to learn a new software and convert the document to something else

Allink · May 3, 2022 at 9:45 AM

↩ Telesphoreo Fair enough, however I'm pretty sure LibreOffice can convert graphics & section breaks but I've not checked so I'm not certain

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