[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

If you select and then double click a tab on the Ribbon, it will be
minimised so that just the tabs appear and subsequently single clicking on a
tab will expand the Ribbon so its contents are revealed. When the focus
moves back to the document, the Ribbon is once again minimised.

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"marigold" wrote in message
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I don't feel that this answered the question of how to minimize this
annoyingly large item on the toolbar. I really hate, hate, hate the Word
2007 toolbars as they take up too much of my screen. Why on earth do I
need
these huge style gallery samples? how can I make everything smaller?


"Terry Farrell" wrote:

This is called the Quick Style Gallery. You can customize the gallery to
show exactly which styles you need and this can be set as a global
gallery
(displayed for all documents regardless of the template they are created
from) or can be customized on a template by template basis.

At its simplest level, simply right click on a Style in the gallery and
choose REMOVE FROM QUICK STYLE GALLERY.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Barb Lee" wrote in message
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This is in the new Word 2007. How do I keep all the styles from
showing
on
the style toolbar? Can it be minimized some way to just a drop down?