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Collapsing the Ribbon

The next time you open a message, try double-clicking the Message tab in the Ribbon. You can save a lot of screen real estate by collapsing the Ribbon. Plus, once you collapse the Ribbon it will stay that way for all messages you open!  By default, the Ribbon is always visible.

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If you double-click the Message tab to collapse the Ribbon, you’ll see much more of your message.

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If you’re reading a message and need to take some action (i.e. Reply, Forward, or Delete), you can either single-click the Message tab to pop out the Ribbon temporarily or use a keyboard shortcut.

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Loving her Zune,

Ellen Adams

Program Manager

Posted: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:24 AM by outblog

Comments

Programmerman said:

I feel like I should take a screenshot of me reading this post in Outlook (yay, feed reader!  Greatest feature of 2007!  Thank you all so much for that one!) so the debate could begin: was it like that before I read this post or after? :)

(I found it pretty easily, and you can also right-click on the ribbon and click "Minimize the Ribbon" to accomplish the same thing.)

# May 27, 2008 7:41 PM

Matt said:

Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle the Ribbon state?

# June 10, 2008 1:46 PM

mary said:

HOw do you get it to "always" display again?

# July 24, 2008 12:02 PM

Jed said:

@Mary - You can double-click on the ribbon tab (i.e. "Message") and it should always stay open.

# August 21, 2008 6:51 PM
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