Customize Word 2011′s ribbon and enable more features ...

Word 2011′s ribbon may appear to be locked to a default set of tabs and functions but it’s actually more customizable than its sibling applications Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Users can choose whether or not to display the ribbon at all, view tabs or rearrange tabs. Behavior between each Office 2011 application is inconsistent, so some settings need to be accessed in different ways.

Word 2011′s default ribbon

When opening a new Word document, the default behavior is to show the ribbon and to expand it to display each tool. Most all customization can be done in the ribbon’s preferences settings. While any document or a blank document is open, select Preferences… from the Word menu and click on the Ribbon button.

The first three options affect “vertical real estate”.

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