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91858670 asked CharlesKenyon-8472 published

How do I expand the styles area in my ribbon on the top of my word documents?

When I have my ribbon pinned open in my word document I cannot see all of the available styles (ie normal text or headings) It has the styles section but has no options until I open the styles pop-out window. This is what it looks like.

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This is what I want it to look like
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91858670 answered MRichTSS-8042 published

Thank you for your help @erinding-msft and @JohnKorchok! I was able to solve the issue on my own. My laptop is a touch screen and I accidentally changed the spacing optimization from mouse to touch screen which is why I was no longer seeing the styles in the ribbon. As seen pictured below.


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Thank you! This helped solve my problem as well

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CharlesKenyon-8472 answered CharlesKenyon-8472 published

You can add a custom Ribbon tab that only has the styles.

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You can click on the drop-down to give the full Styles Gallery.

Keep in mind that the Quick Styles Gallery is only a small subset of the styles in your document or available.

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You can add a button for the styles gallery to your QAT so that you can get that regardless of which tab is active in the Ribbon. Here is a link to a macro-free add-in that adds a number of style controls to the QAT.
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http://addbalance.com/word/download.htm#StylesQATAddIn



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erinding-msft answered

Hi @CassandraJ-8057,

Welcome to Q&A forum.

As JohnKorchok said, "The style gallery automatically collapses when there isn't enough screen space", please make sure the Word is maximized to fill your screen.

If it doesn't help, you could try to go to File>Options>Customize Ribbon to Remove Styles, then re-add it to have a check.
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Besides, you could select Home tab, then in the drop-down list of Reset select Reset only selected Ribbon tab to set Home tab to its default settings.
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