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Ribbon using 1/2 of screen suggestions?
I just installed the Word 2007, but the space between the icons is taking up
so much room I can only write on a 4 x 6 area. There are bars on all sides. So I will have to take it off and go back to 2003 unless I find a way to minimize the area and make the icons small. I have old eyes and cannot make the text any smaller, so the following won't work after reading all the posts I can find for 3 days. 1. DPI -I need it at the size it is to see the text for all the other programs and what I am writing. 2.Screen resolution-same thing. It is the icon size and all the empty space that is the problem. I changed the Theme and that seemed to help a little, but not enough to make it work keeping this very expensive suite of programs. Any suggestions besides getting an Apple would be appreciated because that is where I am going if I can't resolve this. |
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Ribbon using 1/2 of screen suggestions?
Or... if you're more keyboard-oriented, Ctrl+F1 also toggles the ribbon
on/off. Since I don't use F11 for "Next Field," I assigned it to the ToggleRibbon command for even easier (for me, anyway) non-mouse one-finger access to the ribbon toggle. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Double click one of the tabs on the ribbon and the ribbon will auto-hide. Double click again to restore default action. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Person trying to use office" Person trying to use wrote in message ... I just installed the Word 2007, but the space between the icons is taking up so much room I can only write on a 4 x 6 area. There are bars on all sides. So I will have to take it off and go back to 2003 unless I find a way to minimize the area and make the icons small. I have old eyes and cannot make the text any smaller, so the following won't work after reading all the posts I can find for 3 days. 1. DPI -I need it at the size it is to see the text for all the other programs and what I am writing. 2.Screen resolution-same thing. It is the icon size and all the empty space that is the problem. I changed the Theme and that seemed to help a little, but not enough to make it work keeping this very expensive suite of programs. Any suggestions besides getting an Apple would be appreciated because that is where I am going if I can't resolve this. |
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Ribbon using 1/2 of screen suggestions?
Thank you for the suggestions. However, if the ribbon is minimized, then I
cannot use the commands, so I cannot format text, or do any of the hundreds of other things that I did with other Word programs. I think that I am going to take it off the computer. But thanks. I don't think that Microsoft considered that all of us don't have the newest latest computers when they put out this program. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Or... if you're more keyboard-oriented, Ctrl+F1 also toggles the ribbon on/off. Since I don't use F11 for "Next Field," I assigned it to the ToggleRibbon command for even easier (for me, anyway) non-mouse one-finger access to the ribbon toggle. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Double click one of the tabs on the ribbon and the ribbon will auto-hide. Double click again to restore default action. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Person trying to use office" Person trying to use wrote in message ... I just installed the Word 2007, but the space between the icons is taking up so much room I can only write on a 4 x 6 area. There are bars on all sides. So I will have to take it off and go back to 2003 unless I find a way to minimize the area and make the icons small. I have old eyes and cannot make the text any smaller, so the following won't work after reading all the posts I can find for 3 days. 1. DPI -I need it at the size it is to see the text for all the other programs and what I am writing. 2.Screen resolution-same thing. It is the icon size and all the empty space that is the problem. I changed the Theme and that seemed to help a little, but not enough to make it work keeping this very expensive suite of programs. Any suggestions besides getting an Apple would be appreciated because that is where I am going if I can't resolve this. |
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Ribbon using 1/2 of screen suggestions?
Thank you for your help, but if the ribbon is minimized then I cannot use the
commands that are located in the ribbon and I keep having to turn it on, so that defeats the purpose of minimizing it. My laptop isn't that old, only 3 years, but obviously too old to run this program. I will take it off and switch to Open office and let the rest of the people in the company figure out how to convert my files I guess. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Or... if you're more keyboard-oriented, Ctrl+F1 also toggles the ribbon on/off. Since I don't use F11 for "Next Field," I assigned it to the ToggleRibbon command for even easier (for me, anyway) non-mouse one-finger access to the ribbon toggle. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog: http://word.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Double click one of the tabs on the ribbon and the ribbon will auto-hide. Double click again to restore default action. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Person trying to use office" Person trying to use wrote in message ... I just installed the Word 2007, but the space between the icons is taking up so much room I can only write on a 4 x 6 area. There are bars on all sides. So I will have to take it off and go back to 2003 unless I find a way to minimize the area and make the icons small. I have old eyes and cannot make the text any smaller, so the following won't work after reading all the posts I can find for 3 days. 1. DPI -I need it at the size it is to see the text for all the other programs and what I am writing. 2.Screen resolution-same thing. It is the icon size and all the empty space that is the problem. I changed the Theme and that seemed to help a little, but not enough to make it work keeping this very expensive suite of programs. Any suggestions besides getting an Apple would be appreciated because that is where I am going if I can't resolve this. |
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Ribbon using 1/2 of screen suggestions?
When the ribbon is minimized, you access the commands on it by single-
clicking on the tab you need. Do you realize you can put the commands you use frequently onto the Quick Access Toolbar, and you can place the QAT below the Ribbon for easier access? And I'm puzzled by your statement that there are things taking up the sides and bottom of your screen as well as the top. You don't need to have anything on the sides besides the ruler and the scroll bar (and you can even have them go away if necessary), and the Status Bar at the bottom of the document window contains the most important information about navigating in your document (and right-click on it to see all the other useful information it can contain). On Apr 14, 11:38*am, Person trying to use office wrote: Thank you for the suggestions. However, if the ribbon is minimized, then I cannot use the commands, so I cannot format text, or do any of the hundreds of other things that I did with other Word programs. I think that I am going to take it off the computer. But thanks. I don't think that Microsoft considered that all of us don't have the newest latest computers when they put out this program. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Or... if you're more keyboard-oriented, Ctrl+F1 also toggles the ribbon on/off. Since I don't use F11 for "Next Field," I assigned it to the ToggleRibbon command for even easier (for me, anyway) non-mouse one-finger access to the ribbon toggle. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word Bible Blog:http://word.herbtyson.com Web:http://www.herbtyson.com "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Double click one of the tabs on the ribbon and the ribbon will auto-hide. Double click again to restore default action. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org "Person trying to use office" Person trying to use wrote in message ... I just installed the Word 2007, but the space between the icons is taking up so much room I can only write on a 4 x 6 area. There are bars on all sides. So I will have to take it off and go back to 2003 unless I find a way to minimize the area and make the icons small. I have old eyes and cannot make the text any smaller, so the following won't work *after reading all the posts I can find for 3 days. 1. DPI -I need it at the size it is to see the text for all the other programs and what I am writing. 2.Screen resolution-same thing. It is the icon size and all the empty space that is the problem. I changed the Theme and that seemed to help a little, but not enough to make it work keeping this very expensive suite of programs. Any suggestions besides getting an Apple would be appreciated because that is where I am going if I can't resolve this.- |
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