Office 2010/2007: Ribbon minimize mode: maximize space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office (via: How-To Geek)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/08
The ribbons in Office 2010/2007 take up a lot of sceen estate.
Luckily, it is easy to maximize space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office 2010/2007: put the Ribbon in “Minimize Mode”.
The Ribbon will un-hide when you:
- click on one of the Ribbon tabs
- press the Alt key followed by a letter corresponding to a Ribbon tab
How-To Geek explains (with screen shots) how to put the Ribbon in “Minimize Mode”:
To put the Ribbon into minimized mode, just right-click an open area on the Ribbon and choose Minimize the Ribbon.
Edit:
In addition to that (thanks Matthijs!) you can switch the Ribbon to/from auto-hide behaviour by double-clicking on a ribbon tab.
–jeroen
via: Maximize Space by “Auto-Hiding” the Ribbon in Office 2007 – How-To Geek.
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Anders Isaksson said
…or you could click on the little up (or down) arrow next to the “Help” icon. It even has a tool tip explaining what it does.
jpluimers said
Thanks! It is always those little things (: