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Bring it back!

I have been an MS Office user since 1991 but over the past 2 years I have been using Open Office. Whilst saw Office 2007 in beta I thought whoever re-designed the interface has been on something especially to come up with the big Fisher Price Buttons. Why change it if it is not broke?

After having to use Office 2007 along with Vista (I am of the same opinion here as Office 2007) for my new job I just cannot get used to the big buttons and illogical layout. It is taking ages to find things especially when I have to roll out documents quickly.

I had heard of a way of bringing the old menus back so did some investigation and found this where you can download a tool to do just this.

Whilst it does not completely replace the Office 2007 menus it adds another menu option called menu. On clicking on this you get the standard office 2003 menu bar and toolbars. I like this idea as it allows me to learn Office 2007 (as I need to) but have the backup of being able to use the old options.

However once I have got used to prepping the said documents in Office 2007 I will be going back to Open Office to see how it copes as I have found the Word/Open Office translation to be fiddly at times.

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