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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 3473347" data-attributes="member: 5100">I agreed with you, at first.  Being a bleeding edge kinda guy, though, I left 2007 installed on my machine for a while.  It took about a month (which, btw, is how long it took me to adapt to Dvorak), but I do find the ribbon easier to work with than the menus.  Sometimes I still get lost looking for some obscure feature, but it's generally better.  Plus, the added features in 2007 make it nice to work with, regardless.My understanding, though, is that part of the learning curve is fighting existing knowledge.  I'm definitely a power user for Word and Excel, and I'm betting you are, too.  Apparently, the ribbon is much easier for Grandma, or the guys in marketing, to use than a menu/toolbar -- according to MS market research.  The philosophy is that a power user is likely to be able to adapt pretty easily to a new control interface, so cater to the beginning user and the user base, as a whole, is both enlarged and empowered.MS has said that 8 in 10 of the requests they had for new features were things that were already in place in Office, often for multiple releases.  The goal of moving to the ribbon is to de-obfuscate the existing abilities in Office.  Apparently, the beta feedback says that it's doing it's job pretty well, overall.</blockquote>