If you’re like most people, you probably use the ribbon more than you’d like to admit. But if you’re using Office 2007, there’s a good chance that you don’t want the ribbon to always be visible. In this article, we’ll show you how to auto-hide the ribbon in Office 2007. ..


Open the Customize Quick Access Toolbar and from here place a check next to the functions you want to include on the bar.  To add additional functions just click on More Commands.

Under More Commands simply select All Commands and add what you want to the Quick Access Toolbar.

  

Now once we have the items we need select the option to minimize The Ribbon.  This makes for a cleaner interface providing more room to work on the document.  Again this is application specific and with Office 2007 SP1 every time you open the application The Ribbon will be hidden by default.