As a newbie I cheer all of You and hastily type my pressing question: Is it possible to negotiate MS Word to show only Quick Access Toolbar? (When one choose from Ribbon Display Options, Auto-hide Ribbon- MS Word, on the top of the application/screen shows a band, occupied only by a few items- one of them for instance is a cross mark for closing application etc. So I want to add only Quick Access Toolbar and get biggest possible working area, without sacrifacing handy Quick Access Toolbar.)Appreciate any apinion.

It may be possible but you would lose, not just hide, the Ribbon. In Word 2013 you can double-click on a Ribbon Tab and hide/show the Ribbon. The tabs will still be displayed. To me, this is the maximum practical method for gaining screen real estate. The Auto-Hide option hides the Ribbon and Tabs, but also hides the QAT.

Otherwise, you could use the AutoHide option. That can be selected in the top right corner of the window. It has an icon of a rectangle with an up-pointing arrow in it. The AutoHide option hides both the Ribbon and QAT but will display both if you move your pointer to the top of the Window. Note, this option first became available with Word 2013.

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Thanks for the response. And there is no way, to show only QAT without the Ribbon?

You can blank everything but the File Button, but that does not save you any space and means you can't access the other Ribbon tabs. See below.
That is my rather extensive QAT with this setup. Note the FILE button is still there, taking up that vertical space. You also have the Title Bar with the
document name and your minimize/maximize and close buttons.
Again, with that, you cannot use the other tabs. They are not merely hidden, they are gone. That will make Word very difficult to use.
You can save as much space by simply minimizing the Ribbon.

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I strongly recommend trying the AutoHide option and seeing if that will help. Both the Ribbon and the QAT will then be available but not using screen space. That also gets rid of the title bar at the top, giving you five-six additional rows of your screen.

OK, Auto Hide is better, however not the solution which I searched. But I can live with it. Honestly, I expected from MS Word more. I mean something like Corel Designer, where one can undock toolbars and set them on a second or third monitor...... I am not sure, whether rules of the forum permit to ask a second question in this thread, which concerns different issue and is missing from the headline, or to commence with a new thread.

First, new topic should be a new thread with new heading. You are most likely to get the best response.

Second, Word used to have this capability with toolbars (Word 97-2003). It was deliberately removed at the request of corporate IT departments who were being called upon to fix user customizations. What is shown below is Word 2003 with a number of custom toolbars, some of which are floating outside the Word window. Toolbars could float or be docked on any of the four sides of the Word window. Word 2003 can still be found on the Internet.

I can understand the frustration of the IT folks, but their cure should have been user training and internal procedures rather than taking the capability from the rest of us.

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