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.