Excel for MacOS missing Editing/Viewing drop down in Ribbon bar

I use Microsoft 365 for Mac.

There is a feature in Word for Mac that works pretty well for me - the option in the Word ribbon bar that displays a drop-down list for Editing, Viewing etc.


I tried to find or enable this option in Excel for Mac, but can't seem to find it.


Can any Excel for Mac user help me?


Regards,


-jP

MacBook Air, macOS 15.6

Posted on Oct 12, 2025 5:47 AM

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Posted on Oct 12, 2025 10:13 AM

Even if you visit Excel (16.101.3) Preferences > Ribbon & Toolbar panel and select All Commands in the Ribbon, you still won't find Word's Editing tool. Different applications, development teams, and functionality is why you won't find a specific word processing centric ribbon item on a Spreadsheet application.


Contact Microsoft about this.

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Oct 12, 2025 10:13 AM in response to James Palmer2

Even if you visit Excel (16.101.3) Preferences > Ribbon & Toolbar panel and select All Commands in the Ribbon, you still won't find Word's Editing tool. Different applications, development teams, and functionality is why you won't find a specific word processing centric ribbon item on a Spreadsheet application.


Contact Microsoft about this.

Oct 12, 2025 9:43 AM in response to James Palmer2

Your images were not displayed in your post, so hard to see what is going on.


In Excel, try:


Preferences


and select


Ribbon and Toolbar


All the available options are shown there to configure your ribbon.


When I run Excel, I don't see that additional drop down option you mention although I do see it in Word. So it might be that you have to access those selections through other menus in Excel.

Oct 12, 2025 8:47 AM in response to BobTheFisherman

The website link that "Bob..." provided has some serious / known issues with posting questions.


I'm trying to find someone that uses Excel for MacOS and then construct a detailed description of my issue / question in this forum.

Word displays the following:

but Excel displays the following.

The functionality in Word works well for me (at least for now), but the functionality in Excel is absent.


Thanks for asking, though.


-jP

Excel for MacOS missing Editing/Viewing drop down in Ribbon bar

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