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And I've just found a way that I can lose it, at least in Outlook.
Outlook is a special case for me: it has half a monitor dedicated to it, because it's always there. always running, and - pretty much - always busy ... 
But the Ribbon takes up a big chunk of space, and since the things I use most often aren't associated with "normal" keys I end up with the damn ribbon blocking my screen most of the time.
Except on my Surface, where there is a small, neat set of keys that do much of what I want: Toggle "Read" status, reply, delete, flag ... which isn't on my desktop.
And I just worked out it's "Touch mode" which enables it. So I can hide the stupid Ribbon, and just remember "F9 is refresh, not F5" and gain a good chunk of space back!
(If you want to try it, click the "Customise Quick Access Toolbar" in the top right, and enable the "Touch / Mouse Mode" button. In Touch mode, it's there, in Mouse mode, it's not).
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In Word you can unpin it so it only appears when you click a top level menu item (something I just learned).
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In Outlook you can unpin like in Word, Excel, Access ...
strg + F1
or
ctrl + F1
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+5 just for ribbon hate! But did they eliminate the dropdown carat? In 2010 version there is a dropdown carat at the top-right position of the screen that pins and unpins the ribbon.
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: cough : Office 2003 : cough :
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:cough: Doesn't support .DOCX files* :cough:
* And the compatibility pack that allows it is no longer available from MS
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Yes it does. Want a copy?
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I wasn't sure if that subject was a pun (because the ribbon is literally right at the top, get it?) 
Don't share your hate though.
It's just a menu bar with buttons for the things I supposedly use the most.
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It's a menu bar that is 30mm tall (on this Surface) and shows maybe a dozen things. Compare that with a toolbar in VS: 5mm high, 5mm wide per button - so my precious screen real estate isn't covered, and I can get dozens of functions on there. If I need to find something I don't recognise the picture for, I can mouse hover for a tooltip. Why force us to waste space I could use for reading the actual message? 
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When an option literally becomes invisible if your screen size isn't wide enough, yes, I hate it. I'm not talking about the last menu item disappearing. I'm talking about sh*t in the middle. F'ing pisses me off. The old menus were always at the same position, but not these damn things.
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I guess I'm always on a big screen
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Hi! My name is clippy. I see you are trying to mess around with my ribbon. If you keep that up, you will go blind.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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*gigglesnort*
Real programmers use butterflies
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The Ribbon inventor was traumatised by the tool bar from hell!
And was trying to improve the concept! ^_^
Toolbar from Hell
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I love the ribbon.
But if you don't like it, you can use the "Ribbon Display Options" button in the top right (near the Minimize button) to bring up different options, including hiding the ribbon altogether and showing only the tabs.
Cheers,
विक्रम
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Now it's not like I've not honked this horn, before, but I just had to give an example that I've been see for a couple of years now and, to emphasize my point, had to share.
The epidemic of proud ignorance has reached a level that is just a shock to the system.
To wit - examples for a supermarket chain's weekly add:
KRAFT CHEESE SHREDS - 2 for $4 - that's just $2 each!
CHOBANI GREEK YOGURT - 5 for $5 - that's just $1 each !
These are spread throughout this circular[^]
I suppose, within a generation, they'll have to have something like:
POLLY-O MOZZARELLA - $2.50 - that's just $2.50 each!
You know how bad it really is? When the composed the circular they used a calculator.
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It could be worse: Stupid supermarket special offers[^]
Buy 1 for £1, or 2 for £4!
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When I was a wee lad I used to read every label and do all sorts of head math - just some little kids amusement thing. No big deal in and of itself.
But I noticed at a very early age that, at the time, buying DelMonte Tomato Sauce in 8oz cans was cheaper than buying it in large sizes. I've still seen these super-large-industrial-size cans of food that are more expensive than buying it in smaller cans.
Yours, one hopes, is a typo - but there's an old vaudeville=esqe line about making change of paper money: "Hey buddy, you got two tens for a five?"
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Bring back pounds, shillings and pence (LSD). That will teach everyone how to do mental arithmetic.
For those younger than me (i.e. all of you), or from somewhere outside the UK, this was UK currency pre-decimalisation.
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When last I was in England, it was just at the transition time. I received a 6p coin in my change and thought I had touch of luck (cuppa was 3p, B&B in St John's Wood: £1/night, then).
No luck - they all knew the math to convert from pence to new-pence.
Something like 1972, no?
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Probably; we actually switched to decimal in February 1971. Oh, and you did not get a 6p coin, as there was no such thing. What you got was a 'tanner' which was 6d: the d stands for denarius, from the original Latin titles of our currency.
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My appearance was June or so, 1972. Back when the UK pound was worth about $5.
Not correcting, but inquiring, didn't they refer to the smallest denominations as pence, like t'pence. At least they did in Mary Poppins - which I consider an unimpeachable authority. Anyway, at least you didn't get involved in the Euro.
Well, back to the sidelines as I watch the swirling race to the bottom.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: didn't they refer to the smallest denominations as pence, like t'pence. At least they did in Mary Poppins
That was tuppence - two pence. Not the smallest denomination, but twice of that.
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I was in a business meeting with a FinTech company around 2010, discussing a system that calculated insurance premiums, resulting in odd pennies instead of nice "round" numbers. I made the grave mistake of referring to a figure of £1.03 as "a pound and thruppence". The meeting was adjourned whilst the younger delegates wiped their eyes and picked themselves up off the floor. 
I have given up referring to a 5p as a "shilling" but do still think in terms of "tuppence", "thruppence". I find that if I'm shocked at the price of something (like a chocolate bar), it's because I've mentally converted it into shillings. I used to get a shilling a week pocket money (5p) through much of 70s, but that meant I could buy a simple Airfix kit every three weeks, and have change for a Mars bar the fourth...
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