Hasyour Excel, Word, or Outlook app’s ribbonsuddenly disappeared?
It’s easy to hide it accidentally, and sometimes the tabs disappear too.
The following guide uses Excel for demonstration.
Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek
You’ll use the same steps in both Word and Outlook.
One way to unhide your tab’s commands is by double-clicking a tab name.
This method works for Office’s current and upcoming Visual Refresh interface.
Another way to unhide your tab commands is by right-clicking a tab and choosing “Collapse the Ribbon.”
(Doing so disables the option, allowing your tab commands to be visible.)
In the open menu, select “Show Tabs and Commands.”
Your full ribbon is now back in your app.
If you’re a Mac user you have one more option: open Excel and select Excel > Preferences.
Choose “Ribbon” and turn on the “Turn On the Ribbon” option.
Tounhide your ribbontemporarily, in your app’s top-right corner, hit the three dots.
In the open menu, choose “Show Tabs and Commands.”
Then, in the same menu, select “Auto-Hide Ribbon.”
This disables the feature that automatically hides your ribbon.
And that’s how you bring your favorite Office app’s ribbon tabs and commands back.
