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How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

The ribbon interface in Microsoft Office is a sweet spot for many users. The tabbed ribbon interface groups specific options inside a single tab.

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice
Ribbon interface in Microsoft Office

It is so popular that almost every Microsoft application has it.

Missing the good old ribbon interface of Microsoft Office in LibreOffice?

You can achieve similar results in LibreOffice which looks even better (in my opinion):

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice
Ribbon interface in LibreOffice

So let's jump to the how-to part!

Enable tabbed ribbon interface in LibreOffice

You'll have to activate experimental features to enable the tabbed ribbon interface in LibreOffice.

Open LibreOffice from your system menu:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

Once you open it, click on Tools and select options from there, select advanced options and under optional features, you will find an option to enable experimental features:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

Now, it will ask whether you want to restart LibreOffice now or later. Restart LibreOffice and it will enable experimental features for you:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

Using the tabbed ribbon interface

Open LibreOffice writer or other tools from your system menu:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

Click on the View menu and select User Interface & select the Tabbed option and apply changes:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

And here's the final result:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

That was cool. If you don't like the tabbed interface, you can go back to the default view.

Revert to the default view in LibreOffice

The issue in reverting to the default view is there is no user interface option in the tabbed view.

So the first step is to enable the menu bar.

The option to enable menubar is situated inside the View tab:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

Once you enable the menu bar, click on the View menu and select the User interface option. From there, select the Standard Toolbar option and apply the changes:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

And it will get you the default look of LibreOffice:

How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

Yep, it's that simple to switch between user interfaces on LibreOffice!

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How to Enable Tabbed Ribbon Interface in LibreOffice

What's Next?

If you are using LibreOffice and want to get the most out of it, we have a dedicated video tutorial for that matter:

I hope you will find this quick tip helpful. Please let me know in the comments if you have any queries or suggestions!

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