I just had a "Ribbon Aaaargghh" moment I thought I'd share. Now some of you are probably going to read this and think "Oh you silly, fellow, Funky, I can't believe you didn't know to double click there". I didn't, OK? Heap your scorn on me if you will but I maintain that if I'm dumb there's dumber out there and there really wasn't any help in the product to usher me through my time of frustration.

I've got a spreadsheet with many, many rows in it. One of the columns has wrap text set on. Some very long text has been entered in that column so it was making the rows high enough to be unwieldy. No problem, I thought, I'll make the column a bit wider. I do that and now there's white space above the text in those rows. OK, I need to resize the rows. Irritating that it didn't do it for me but not unreasonable (we tend to complain when office makes assumptions so I'm not going to start complaining that it didn't). I'll do it myself. Select the rows, right click select autores.... hang on, where's the autoresize rows option? It's been removed.

Ah well, it must be in the ribbon somewhere. After all, the ribbon replaces the menu system and should therefore contain all the functions buried with it somewhere, right? OK, damned if I can find it. I've been looking for about half an hour and I just can't track it down. It's more elusive than a ninja weasel.

The help's no good either. It takes me a few minutes to find it because I'm stupidly looking for a menu that says help rather than a 3 mm high icon but I perservere and eventually manage to track it down and type in AutoResize Rows. I the top 100 results back and they're all talking about rows but not a single mention of autoresize. OK, I try again and type in AutoResize without the rows bit. No Results. Gnnn. My blood pressure's starting to rise at this point.

Then, of course, the smart ass next to me leans over and says:
"You do know you can just select the rows and double click on the divider, don't you?".

No. No I bloody don't. I've been using office for well over a decade. If auto-resized rows more times than Emelda Marcos has visited the Shoe Shop and never, in that entire time, have I ever needed to uncover some obscure and, as far as I know, undocumented combination of actions which was about as predictable as a Masonic handshake to do so. Why? Because I could find it on the Damn Menu, that's why. Grrrrrrrr.