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Customize Excel Ribbon

You can customize Excel Ribbon easily. When you need to personalize your Ribbon to re-arrange tabs and commands, hide commands that you do not use often, and unhide commands that are frequently used, you need to customize Ribbon. Questions answered in this section:

Customize Excel Ribbon

  1. What does it mean to customize Ribbon?
  2. How to hide or show Ribbon?
  3. How to Change order of default or custom tabs in Ribbon?
  4. How to add a custom tab in Ribbon?
  5. Top 2 MCQ Questions and Answers on Customize Excel Ribbon.

1. What does it mean to Customize Excel Ribbon?

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Customize Excel Ribbon means the re-arrangement of tabs, adding or removing new tabs, changing names of tabs, changing the order of tabs, or customizing the groups. To have a clear understanding of Excel Ribbon and Tabs, you may like to visit Excel Ribbon and Tabs.

2. How to hide or show Ribbon?

If you need more space in your screen, you may like to hide Excel Ribbon. To do so, you can follow anyone of the following methods.

Method 1: By pressing Ctrl+F1. You can hide the Ribbon by pressing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+F1, and to get it back press Ctrl+F1.

Method 2: You can hide Ribbon by using the Ribbon Display Options at the top right hand corner of the Excel window.

Ribbon Display Options
Ribbon Display Options

Explanation of the Ribbon Display Options’ image numbers:

  1. Click here to display the options.
  2. Click on 2 to Auto-hide Ribbon.
  3. Click on 3 to display Tabs only (see the image below as an example)
  4. Click on 4 to display Tabs and Commands on Ribbon.
Show Tabs in Excel Ribbon
Showing Tabs only

You can show Ribbon in two ways:

Method 1: If you can see the Tabs only as it is in the following image, you can unhide Ribbon by following the steps. Step 1: Right-click on any Tab, and Step 2: Uncheck or clear the Collapse the Ribbon.

Excel Ribbon unhide. Showing Tabs only.
Unhide Excel Ribbon, Sow Ribbon, Show Tabs Only.

Method 2: Click on Ribbon Display Option –> then click Show Tabs and Commands.

Show Tabs and Commands, Unhide Ribbon in Excel

3. Change order of default or custom tabs in Ribbon:

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When you need to change the order of default order of Tabs, you can do so by using customize the Ribbon. Remember that you can alter the order of Home, Insert, Draw, Page Layout, Formula, Data, and other, but you cannot change the placement of File Tab. Follow the steps to change the order of Tabs:

Step 1: Open Customize the Ribbon dialogue box. You can open the Customize the Ribbon dialogue box in two ways:

Way 1: Right-click on any Tab (1)–> Then click on Customize the Ribbon (2).

Customize Ribbon and Tab

Way 2: Click on File Tab–> Click on Options–> Then click on Customize Ribbon.

Step 2: After opening the Customize the Ribbon dialogue box, select the Tab you want to move up or down. In our example, we want to have the Home Tab before the Insert Tab. Select Home (1)–> click on Up (2).

Customize Excel Ribbon and Tabs

Step 3: Check the Excel Tabs whether the change has been applied. We can see that the change has been made. Now we have Home Tab left to Insert Tab.

4. How to add a custom tab in Ribbon:

Sometimes, you need to add new commands to the Tabs list. Before adding the desired Tab, you first need to pick a tab from list, then click new group.

Ribbon Customize. Adding New Tabs to the list of Tabs.

Example:

We want to add Spelling to the list of Group. We follow the following steps:

Step 1: Select the Tab. We select Home–> Click New Group–> Rename New Group.

Add new Tabs in The Excel Ribbon.

Step 2: Add the Tab by clicking Add>>, and click OK.

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Add new Tabs.

Step 3: Re-arrange the new Tab. We can see that the Spelling Group is at the end of the screen–at the right side. Now we want to get it on the left side. To do so, go to Customize the Ribbon.

Before:

To move the newly added Tab to the left side of the screen, we need to select the Tab (1 in image below), and then click on Up arrow (2 in image below), and finally click on OK (3 in image below).

Now, check whether the Tab has been moved. We can see that the Spelling Group is just after the Font group.

Note: By following the steps in this post, you can add any Tab you want to. There are some other issues related to Customize Excel Ribbon.

Multiple Choice Questions:

1. Which of the following is needed to do first to add new Tab?

A) Select the Tab you want to add.

B) Create new group

C) Add the Tab

D) Open Customize the Ribbon

2. Which of the following is the shortcut to quick hide and unhide Ribbon?

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A) Right-click on any Tab and Click on the options.

B) Press Ctrl+F1

C) Click on File–> Options–> General Setting–> Collapse the ribbon

D) None of the above

Related Posts:

Customize Excel Ribbon Post from Microsoft

To know more about Ribbon and Tabs

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