By default, when you click on a menu (menu bar) in a Windows Office application, you won’t see the entire listing on the menus contents. Instead, you have to wait a few seconds for the entire list of the contents to display itself completely. Or you could further put yourself through the additional annoyance of clicking on the double-chevrons at the bottom on the context menu to force the menu to display itself in its entirety. If you find this as annoying as I do, here’s how to change the default menu settings to display the entire contents of a menu.
From within an open application of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, etc.):
- Click on Tools (menu).
- Select “Customize” (from the context menu).
- In the Customize dialog box, click on the Options tab (if not already selected).
- Under the “Personalized Menus and Toolbars” section, you’ll see a checkmark next to “Show full menus after a short delay.”Click in the check box to the left of “Always show full menus.”
- Click in the check box to the left of “Always show full menus.”
- When satisfied with the results, click on the “Close” button to back out of the dialog box and to accept your new setting.
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