I'm sure numerous victims of this software do hope the ribbon will go away.
If it doesn't, M$ office will go away, sooner or later.

Did anyone try using these applications before releasing them, and if they
did, did they produce a report we can read?

These days we no longer expect routine software to be quite so irritating.
For example, if you want to insert a footnote or a legend in Word, you have
to remember that those sorts of insertion are not under Insertion, but they
go under 'References' (French term). A legend is not a reference, so you
tend to click around for a while till you find it.

Font characteristics are under 'Acceuil', but subscripts and superscripts
(which even schoolkids need) are nowhere easy to find. You can add them only
to the top menu, which is quite ridiculous.

Why can't we configure the menus ourselves?

It takes time to learn new habits with new software. This is a total waste
of time if the new software does nothing you need that you didn't have
already. Nobody is going to develop good plugins for an application that is
likely to be replaced quite soon by something else completely different.




"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" a écrit dans le message
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There are third party add-ins available. Not sure if any are free tho. I
wouldn't count on them being completely what you want. My personal
suggestion would be to get used to the ribbon. It's not going to go away
and you may not always be able to rely on an add-in being available.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



"MicahV" wrote in message
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I greatly prefer the look and feel of Office 2003 when using Word and
Excel;
I am just curious if there is an "upgrade" or something similar that can
cause Office 2007 to act like Office 2003. Thanks for any input.