How do I get rid of all caps ribbon titles in Office 2013?

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Installed Office 2013 on Windows 8 today. It's great, except for one thing, the all caps ribbon titles are inconsistent with the title case titles everywhere else in Windows 8. Is there a registry setting that will let me change this?

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score 42 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 30 '12 at 08:42

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Of course, it can be fixed. Simply put a space before or after the Tab title. I prefer putting it after.

Right click the tab heading > Customize the ribbon > Click on the tab you want to rename. Either right click and select "Rename" or click the "Rename" button below.
Then put a space before or after the tab title.
The tab title will now appear in sentence case.

edited Oct 30 '12 at 08:42

slhck

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answered Oct 29 '12 at 06:51

Hadron

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score 19 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

No, apparently, there isn't. Here is what seems to be an official answer from Microsoft (thread):

The development team discussed changing the tabs to proper case, but made a firm decision that they would leave them all caps as designed. There is no way to change them in the registry, but if you have an add-in that creates new tabs, they will be whatever case you specify in your custom ribbon file.

There is a registry setting to disable all caps menu in the Visual Studio 2012 (discussed here, for example):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\General
DWORD: SuppressUppercaseConversion
Value: 1

But this does not work for the new Office 2013. Just in case I have tried these settings (of course, none of them worked):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SuppressUppercaseConversion
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General \SuppressUppercaseConversion

If you need more information on this choice, here is a good thread at ux.stackexchange.com, where you can find a designer's opinion on that.

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '13 at 06:14

You can also try unOFFIC (http://unoffic.migeel.sk/). It's a small in-memory patch for all Office 2013 apps that fixes ALL CAPS not only on the ribbon, but also in the status bar and a few other spots. It doesn't modify the Office EXEs in any way, so it should be pretty safe and update resilient.

Rakib Ansary · Answer 4 · 2013-02-12T03:23:48.430

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The all-caps is a software feature. The new release of Visual Studio 2012 uses all-caps as well. Microsoft is probably testing if users accept this new look. Depending on how things turn out, they'll probably release a patch (service packs) to either change all-caps to normal (Office, Visual Studio, etc) or normal to all-caps (File Explorer, etc).

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answered Oct 27 '12 at 09:40

Rakib Ansary

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 30 '12 at 05:36

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right click on the tab title, choose customize ribbon, click rename and put a blank space in front of the tab title. Click OK. Do the same for all the other titles.

answered Oct 30 '12 at 05:36

Ayhan

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 23 '14 at 18:06

A Microsoft MVP has complete menu customization files available for download, here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/wiki/office_2013_release-office_install/proper-case-for-office-2013-ribbon-menus/d28ad27b-a727-4b63-a6e1-46deb15696a8

These can be safely imported into Office 2013 apps through the "Import/Export" feature in the ribbon customization menus, and they will proper-case the entire menu.

How do I get rid of all caps ribbon titles in Office 2013?

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