Raj Kaimal

Wow - I thought we have to live with the new ribbon-thing. This add-in is quite impressive, thanks for the hint.

This is GREAT!  Makes office products so much easier to use!

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Or you could just use OpenOffice, which doesn't have this poor UI and is free.

What on earth is happening in MS usability labs? Just goes to show that research is only a way of post-rationalizing what you want to do anyways. I've been using office 2007 since it came out and I still spend wasted hours trying to figure out where to find the right button. I think this is what happens when you try too hard to be like Apple. Thanks for this addon advice.

A UI upgrade was overdue considering the classic menu has been around for almost 20 years.  Menus grew out of control and then task bars were added and made it complicated to use or discover new features.  Change is good but having ability to go back to classic helps the transition.

The New Ribbon is really annoying, both with the extra space usage and the scattering of the options.

Personally I turn off all the toolbars except the emnu and basic formatting and use shortcuts for everything else.

Even though you can hide the Ribbon you cannot really get a menu back properly.

I understand them trying to add a new element to the system, but the fact you cannot turn it off or revert it to a normal menu is about the biggest screw-up MS has made in ages.

If they do this to Visual Studio I will begin programming in Java and abandon them entirely.

My employer has forced us to use Office 2007. Productivity has fallen significantly, even though we don't use it all that much. The REAL downside is our paranoid IT people have the machines so locked down, we can't even install this add on and they refuse to install it for us.

Microsoft SUCKS! I'll be using Open Office in the future.....