After bitching a day about it, I now come to realize I love Office 2007

I was just upgraded at work and I use Excel, Access and Powerpoint all the time. I love the lil quick action tool bar you can customize at the top - I use some weird functions so I put all my favorites up there.

Two thumbs up from this gal!

As you use some of the more obscure functions, it is easier for you to access them. For me it has been a titanic pain because some of the functions I could easily access in earlier versions of Word, like footnotes, now require more work to get to. Not the end of the world, I can adapt, but its still a pain.

it burns...

iWorks and Openoffice just suck.

It still lacks one or two niceties Office 2007 for Winbloat has, but Microsoft occasionally does something right.

Unfortunately, they're doing to it what was done to windows a long time ago: Selling the new version by saying "This is how the old one should have been". With office 2010 finally making EVERY office app, consistent with the ribbon, that;'s how they should have done it -- 4 years was plenty of time. It's like they do things slowly, say it's all new anyway, and see how the guinea pigs customers react.

Not to mention, some aspects of Office 2007 haven't been fixed and I bet the same inconsistencies will remain in Office 2010.

There's still a lot TO like in the new office, but for their hype of the ribbon, they couldn't do it the first time around so why pay them hundreds of dollars just to have "what it should have been"? Why double-dip the customer, who is a triple-dip for continuing to buy their poorly designed products? Office is the only thing they have left... people loathe Windows enough to leave it for professionally made operating systems; the office suite will follow.

POS.:grr: :banghead:

I use Word and OneNote more than the other Office 2007 apps, however.