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The pushpin icon for the word and excel ribbons has vanished. I can no longer hide and unhide the ribbon. However, the ctrl+F1 keyboard shortcut still works. How to I make the pushpin icon return?
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I find the loss of the pushpin icon very frustrating. Excel is probably my most-used software program at work.
It's removal means an additional three movements every time I want to switch between seeing and hiding the ribbon: 1 expand the arrow; 2 highlight the desired option; click the option. That might not seem like much, but when working on complex and large datasets (which I often am) where I am developing both new forms of analysis & visual presentation formats, those added movements definitely add up.
Change in and of itself is fine, but when it comes at a cost to functionality without an equal benefit... not so much.
It'd be useful if there was an option to use the pushpin icon.
Hello
The pushpin is now replaced by this that you will find on the bottom right of the ribbon:
If you want to hide the ribbon, you would need to use the Show tabs only option.
Thank you, Emily, for your time and assistance.
Okay. At first, the user image did not appear, but after refreshing the screen (
twice) it finally appeared. This answers my question.
As a side note, I find this change interesting. I have generally preferred English instructions over icons that can sometimes be vague or hard to interpret. But I had gotten used to the pushpin and losing it was somewhat irritating.
From a quote attributed to Douglas Adams,
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Having settings and layouts in Office randomly changed and altered has always been a source of irritation. The so-called "improvements" rarely add to my enjoyment or ease of use. But now I take a mildly perverse comfort in the fact that the people that are making these changes are themselves getting older. What goes around comes around, and they probably won't like having their comfort zone rattled in the future any more than I like it now.
That's a fair point. I fear I fall in the third group in the quote myself. I hear you! But hey, every time we adapt to a new layout, we earn another year of youthfulness. Keeps the mind, and the heart, young!
While I appreciate EmilyS726's assistance, it illustrates exactly what Mairi MacLeod (and myself) was complaining about. A one-click action has been replaced with a three-click action.