I just installed Office 2007 and am not quite happy with it. First, I was very used to where all the commands were located in all of the old Office version. Well, the really changed the UI and totally did away with the standard menu bar. They've replaced it with "The Ribbon". The Ribbon is an area that contains many little icons for all of the things you need to do in Office 2007. Since this Ribbon is not arranged exactly as I would have arranged it, I spend quite a bit of time hunting around for commands. The most frustrating/infuriating thing is that the Ribbon is not customizable. It is beyond me how Microsoft developers did not include a "Classic View" option that allows people to go back to the old UI.
Anyway, the link below leads to a site that describes how developers can customize the Ribbon using dev tools (not exactly easy). If I fool with this stuff long enough, I guess I can eventually customize the Ribbon, but this is out of the question for the typical user.
Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog : Let's Talk About Customization: "galleries"
It looks like there are ways to customize the Office 2007 UI. They aren't that easy to do, but it is possible.
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