My comments aren't about the Ribbon bar. It may be an improvement... but
also frankly will distract Testers from the fact that these apps have only
been incrementally improved (at their heart).

P.S. I accidentally crossposted the original post. I apologize.

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I have had the opposite reaction. Editing work documents in Office 2007
from Office 2000 has been a revelation as far as discoverable options are
concerned.

For instance, try finding where to format a table cell in Word in 2000
versus 2007.


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After furious head scratching, CMM asked:

| I gotta say that I am profoundly disappointed with Office 2007. I'm
| still trying to understand the ribbon... (it seems to basically be
| just an "exploded" menu bar)... but in essense, this is nowhere near
| the revolutionary release MS marketing is contending.
|
| 1) Excel and PowerPoint STILL have the same confusing, horrible MDI /
| fake-sdi interface. How hard is it to get Word's true SDI right? Even
| better, implement a nice TABBED document interface. Give the taskbar a
| break. This is a showstopper.
|
| 2) Dialogs are just as unattractive- and more importantly,
| unintuitive- as ever... in fact they look completely untouched. For
| instance, Word's Modify Style dialog box (with the unintuitively
| placed Modify button in the lower left hand side) is just as unweildy
| as ever. Excel's equation dialog doesn't look like it's been touched
| since Windows 3.1.
|
| 3) Why does resizing the window not resize the view? How do we get a
| Text Width view? Oh, now I have to go into dialog box to do it?! You
| gotta be kidding me. Word's "view" of a document is just as
| distracting and annoying as ever.
|
| 4) No *unified* Template Center / Gallery / Task Manager? Office has
| needed an attractive, nicely designed Task Manager for a long time.
| The old New / Open tools were a beginning but they were never
| IMPROVED. The idea wasn't bad.... it just wasn't followed through on.
| Often, I'll need to create a document but not sure which app to use
| (Word or Publisher... I don't know!!! I'm so confused! Let me call
| IT.... wait I am IT!!!).
|
| There's more... but these are biggies. So far, I don't see much in
| this release that especially compelling. Same old Office..... with a
| new menu bar.