There are many new templates that I like however the basics are all messed up! I can’t find anything and it is very hard to fix so I can.
Bad move Microsoft – why didn’t you ask professional users before making such a mess out of well known/oved ribbon format

If you find a way to ‘reorder’ the ribbons, please share it!! I spent my first 3 hours on Word trying to do just that, because each tab contains 75% things I never use. If I can’t delete items I don’t need, I’d at least like to sort them so the ones I want aren’t mixed up in the mess. The only option I’ve found so far is a $30 add-on program. (Appears that the ribbons are rather like the sidebar in Outlook … Microsoft has decided what I’ll use and how I’ll use it … whether it’s what I actually need or not.) I finally resorted to minimizing the whole ribbon mess and customizing the quick toolbar to include the things I use most. I’m happy to be back to one-click editing and formatting, instead of 2007’s three-clicks-and-then-search technique. (Not to be put off, however, whenever I highlight anything to edit, Word cleverly pops up a little window with the tab/ ribbon it thinks I need … 4 out of 5 times so far: wrong choice!). There are probably ways to customize things more, but if so, they’re as cleverly hidden as the double-underline function!

As someone who’s typed and word-processed for a living for over 40 years, this version hasn’t shown me anything special, and a whole lot that doesn’t work. Microsoft has a dynamite marketing team, to make this stuff industry standard; I wish the functionality of their software was half as good.

I’ve added a sample document to the article. Unfortunately, it’s fairly plain, but hopefully it will give you some idea. For what I do at least – which is writing reports and assignments – Word 2007 has certainly helped me create better presentation and layout much more easily.

Damien