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Thick window title bar in office 365 applications
- In the coming soon section in office (which I’ve found to be turned on) this enables this new look. Click on the megaphone on the upper right corner, scroll to the bottom of the page and disable the preview
Coming Soon
Coming Soon gives you an opportunity try new features and share feedback with us before the changes are released to all customers.
Office has a fresh look. It’s modern and new, designed to help you focus on your best work. This new update includes:
:black_medium_small_square:Simple, intuitive, and seamless experience across all your Office apps
:black_medium_small_square:Customizable ribbon that you can change and create shortcuts to everyday commands you use the most
:black_medium_small_square:Office themes that stay in sync with your Windows light or dark mode setting by default
:black_medium_small_square:Share your work and collaborate with others in real time by selecting Share and sending your draft to whomever you want.
Try the new experience
On
Turn on Try the new experience to try it and let us know what you think! We’re listening and are making more improvements based on your feedback.
Yes, I do feel same. MS don't give a cr-p about user, as long they can suck our money (from business they drain even more of it). I had so many times thought :"what an idiot decided about removing/adding some annoyance (a.k.a. feature) and it can't be turned on or off..." (and add some phrases to it that are not written here because they'd break some rules of this forum).
I personally hate how the crapple products looks and works (don't work) too, so seeing this in w11 make me to not like it too, not to mention how they remove some good features for "idiot-proof"... (Yes, I'm in Linux,Android,ATI,AMD camp 😛 ) I won't go into what I think about those requirements of w11 - this is not place for it, nor I feel like writing about it...
But back to ms-office, since 2 or 3 last updates they started to break more and more, I had to disable hardware accel. in excel because when I worked on xls (not xlsx) file it freezed the grid and it's window (I could click cell, edit it, save it using keyboard shortcuts and "memory" (what, where pop-up and in what order), but screen was not refreshed at all (no dialogs shown, no changes, on selection whatsoever) - so I saw still that same "window" from before freeze moment. After closing and reopening excel (and file) I could see those changes...)
Coming Soon
Coming Soon gives you an opportunity try new features and share feedback with us before the changes are released to all customers.
Office has a fresh look. It’s modern and new, designed to help you focus on your best work. This new update includes:
:black_medium_small_square:Simple, intuitive, and seamless experience across all your Office apps
:black_medium_small_square:Customizable ribbon that you can change and create shortcuts to everyday commands you use the most
:black_medium_small_square:Office themes that stay in sync with your Windows light or dark mode setting by default
:black_medium_small_square:Share your work and collaborate with others in real time by selecting Share and sending your draft to whomever you want.
Try the new experience
On
Turn on Try the new experience to try it and let us know what you think! We’re listening and are making more improvements based on your feedback.
SusanBradleyGeekThank you for that! It's sorted the rather infantile looking super wide bar.
The worry of course is that is going to be an upcoming feature that we won't be able to remove when it goes live.
- That works for me,
Let's make it clear, if you're in trouble with the thick/tall titlebar of new office 365:
1. click the 'coming soon' button (usually on the left of the minimize button)
2. scroll to the bottom, turn off 'Try the new experience'
3. close all office 365 windows and reboot them..
below are chinese version:
如果你也被新版office 365 （2110）超高的标题栏困扰，按如下步骤操作可恢复原来的界面：
1. 点击“即将推出”按钮（窗口最小化按钮左边）
2. 滑到底部，关闭“尝试新体验”
3. 关闭所有office 365窗口并重新启动。 SusanBradleyGeekThanks a lot! That worked. Still, I'll be phasing out of Office since this seems to be an upcoming forced "update". Time to try other software, since I'll be having to adapt anyway...
SusanBradleyGeek Very nice! I hate when new "features" that I didn't want are added by default. Your solution worked, but somehow the Quick Launch toolbar was moved below the ribbon. I had to select "show above ribbon" to put it back where it belongs. Frakking Microsoft!
- Thank you so much for this solution (turning off new look)
It seems that Microsoft is employing kids from kindergarten to design interfaces. Just wished they'd stop screwing around. - I do saw this, but at that time I did not pay attention to it, I had more important thing to do so I just closed it.
To access it it, it required in Settings->General->Privacy to be checked "All connected experiences" (last options) and "Experiences that allow you to download online content" (or something like that - I don't have english office , I have to translate it from my native to english). - Thank you!!!!
"Coming soon" does not appear to be an option in current version of office 365.
