>We know it would be simple for MS to give Office 2007 users choice of 2007 ribbon or classic menu, but MS chooses not to offer that option. They want to control the direction. It bothers me, but in capitalistic system users vote with dollars only, as is happening with Vista. I purchased upgrade to Office 2007 at home because I wanted One Note, which I haven't used so far, but the experience was enough to prove again that Office upgrades don't make sense. The only interesting thing in Office 2007 was search in Outlook.

MS always believed that they know better what you users want and acted accordingly. So why do you still using their products if you don't like them so much? I don't like IE so I switched to FF a long time ago.

>The dilemma is when you need a new machine. Big opportunity for alternative OS and office suite. I would pay 10% extra for true MS Office work-alike, just to promote alternatives. Is anyone listening? Apple? Sun? IBM? Google?

Did you try OpenOffice? It's free.