Excel mis-features: Turning off short menus

By Chris Gemignani
January 11, 2005
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Excel has a “feature” that shows only the most used choices on a menu. This has been in Excel since Excel 2000. Most experienced users HATE this. Here’s a look.

To turn this off, right click on the menu bar and select “Customize…”. Go to the Options tab, and turn on “Always show full menus”.

Here’s a quick screencast that illustrates the same thing. Sorry, only Windows Media for right now.

Short Menus Screencast

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2 comments


March 4, 2010
Ian Poskitt said:

Thanks for posting this very useful tip. How can microsoft imagine that anyone could benefit from this feature, it just drives people mad when they can't find something they know is around there somewhere.


June 4, 2010
Tihomir said:

Thanks for the help! Tne short menu really makes me mad! Have a nice day!

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