Interesting, but I can't help but wonder... (aside from forced corporate upgrades) why upgrade to Office 2007 at all if you don't like the new UI?

Good, the ribbon wasn't the only feature change in Ofc 2007.

I think I should stick with the ribbon, if only so that I have a better chance of answering my users questions, when they can't find something. Must... resist... temptation... must... accept... change!

I went back to Office 2003 because there was no way to customize the ribbon thingy to what you wanted. What I did like about 2007 was that the docx format made files that were a lot smaller (about half if I remember correctly). I might give this a try as my legal copy of Office 2007 is sitting on the shelf gathering dust (apart from Onenote).

I haven't been very impressed with the Ribbon on portable devices and devices with nonstandard aspect ratios. There's simply no customization - you're stuck with the font size provided, a ribbon that takes up 1/3 of the available screen on my Samsung Q1, and on my HP TouchSmart desktop the widescreen creates a bunch of oversize, fuzzy out of focus icons.

Before foisting something like this on people, Microsoft should have provided the utilities needed to make the ribbon more manageable. (Yes I know I can minimize it - I just can't make it any smaller)

Regards,

Matt

John wrote

I went back to Office 2003 because there was no way to customize the ribbon thingy to what you wanted. What I did like about 2007 was that the docx format made files that were a lot smaller (about half if I remember correctly). I might give this a try as my legal copy of Office 2007 is sitting on the shelf gathering dust (apart from Onenote).

Yep. I wind up saving most files in the older formats for compatibility though. And OneNote didn't get the ribbon for whatever reason! Although Mindjet's MindManager has it.