Toolbars - how to reduce size of?

[John Brown]

Recently obtained MS Office 2007.
When loading Word find that the size of the various toolbars at the top of
the page are huge.
How do I reduce the size of these?
Thanks,
John

 

[Jay Freedman]

Recently obtained MS Office 2007.
When loading Word find that the size of the various toolbars at the
top of the page are huge.
How do I reduce the size of these?
Thanks,
John

Although you can be forgiven the mistake, those aren't "toolbars", they're
the "Ribbon". Most of the Office programs have completely changed their user
interface, throwing away menus and toolbars to be replaced by ribbons. Look
at the training materials on office.microsoft.com, for example
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/getstarted/HA100742241033.aspx, for
explanations.

As for how you reduce their size: You don't. That's what Microsoft hath
wrought this time around. You can hide them by pressing Ctrl+F1 or by
double-clicking any of the tabs across the top; then single-clicking any tab
will make the ribbon visible until you choose something from it.

You may also be interested in these articles:

Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeRibbon.htm
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[John Brown]

Cheers. TVM.
J
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Although you can be forgiven the mistake, those aren't "toolbars", they're
the "Ribbon". Most of the Office programs have completely changed their
user interface, throwing away menus and toolbars to be replaced by
ribbons. Look at the training materials on office.microsoft.com, for
example http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/getstarted/HA100742241033.aspx,
for explanations.

As for how you reduce their size: You don't. That's what Microsoft hath
wrought this time around. You can hide them by pressing Ctrl+F1 or by
double-clicking any of the tabs across the top; then single-clicking any
tab will make the ribbon visible until you choose something from it.

You may also be interested in these articles:

Word 2003 to Word 2007 command reference guide:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100744321033.aspx
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeRibbon.htm
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so all may benefit.