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Microsoft introduced a new user interface that they called the Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2007. It was designed to reduce the number of hierarchical menus in previous versions of Microsoft Office. It was a bold move that caused lots of concern by experienced Office users who had to get used to the new Office user interface.

I have been using office 2007 for sometime now and become quite used to the know how, features and tools location in Microsoft Word 2007. With Office 2007 released the old classic menu layout which includes File | Edit | View and so on is replaced by the new web 2.0 tabbed ribbon interface which includes Home | Insert | Page Layout and so on ( as shown in the image below).

The new Microsoft Office 2007 ribbon interface can be hard to get hold off initially while migrating from older office versions, and it becomes very frustrating trying searching for features on the unfamiliar Ribbon interface, Sadly, Microsoft does not include any option for reverting back to the

Mitch Barnett has had enough: I can’t take it anymore. I am re-installing Office 2003 and forgetting about Office 2007. Why? It’s the ribbon man! For all of the usability design, I find it unusable. No offense to Jensen Harris or Microsoft, but for me, the consumer of the product, and after trying it for over a year, I just can’t get used to it.