I watched the video. I'm not saying the ribbon is a bad idea at all. I'm
still adjusting to it... (and figuring out why my favorite Zoom in Word,
Text-Width, is now only available via a dialog box... am I missing
something?).

My disappointment is more that this is all really window dressing (pun
intended). At its heart the apps are incremental improvements and nowhere
near the big hoopla MS Marketing is making it (it reminds me of the
"rearranged" Outlook 2003 interface... where they forgot to address the
disasterous View menu Current View / Arrange By features and instead tucked
them away even further into the interface).

The fact that Excel and PowerPoint are still Classic MDI apps is a huge huge
huge (I said huge!) disappointment. I still see folks everyday (power users
included) struggling with this kludgy MDI + Fake-SDI (Windows in Taskbar)
thing.

Word gets it right. I'm not even a fan of SDI.... I think Tabbed Document
Interface is the way to go. But, CONSISTENCY is even more important.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com
"MerlinsWeb" <MerlinsWeb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> ==============
> "CMM" wrote:
>
>> I gotta say that I am profoundly disappointed with Office 2007. I'm still
>> trying to understand the ribbon... (it seems to basically be just an
>> "exploded" menu bar)... but in essense, this is nowhere near the
>> revolutionary release MS marketing is contending.
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>
> Hi CMM,
>
> The first thing you have to remember is to breathe. I'm teasing you ;-)
>
> I too was very much confused by the "Ribbon", I tried for 30 minutes to
> understand it. but it was too extreme a change. I was disappointed to say
> the
> least. But then I decided to take a tour of the User Interface here:
> http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/ui/video.mspx
>
> I could barely contain myself while watching the video; the new features
> are
> indeed revolutionary - at least for someone who works with documents every
> day like myself. I honestly burst out laughing in amazement as I watched.
>
> The video is a small download that streams from the source once opened. It
> is well worth seeing.
>
> Merlin
>
>