How many of those buttons in Microsoft Word do you actually use? Until last night, Word on my personal computer had seventy-seven buttons in four rows. Most I only used about once per year, and I didn’t know what many of them did. That’s a lot of wasted screen real estate:

Word buttons before

I removed any button that I wasn’t going to use every day, and managed to fit all the buttons on one row:

Word buttons after

Now that I have a minimalist version of Word, I can see much more text, and there aren’t a bunch of distracting icons. Word is a primary tool of my trade, so it makes sense to make it as streamlined and functional as possible.