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Minimize the Ribbon

Posted on January 15th, 2007 at 6:00 am ·
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Getting back some screen real estate.

One of the things that you might find bothersome about Excel 2007’s Ribbon is the amount of space it takes up at the top of the workbook window. Fortunately, you can get it out of the way and recover that space. Here’s how.

  1. Right click on any button on the Ribbon. A contextual menu appears:
    Contextual Menu
  2. Choose Minimize the Ribbon. The Ribbon shrinks so it looks a lot like a good, old fashioned menu bar.
    Minimized Ribbon

From that point on, to access the Ribbon, click the tab you want to expand and display it. It will overlap the top of the document window, as shown here:
Expanded Ribbon

When you continue working in the worksheet window, the Ribbon collapses again.

To get the Ribbon back to normal, right-click on any Ribbon tab and choose Minimize the Ribbon from the contextual menu that appears. That will toggle the feature to “off.”

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