Office 2007 is a reason why OpenOffice is becoming more popular. The new interface is atrocious. I still haven’t decoded the underlying paradigm that would allow me to “postulate” where to find various commands and features.
Just locating the File menu is anti-intuitive in that you must click on the logo. Umm... Everyone I talk to has a story about discovering the File menu. It usually begins like this, “I was so frustrated so I started randomly clicking on everything.”
I agree. The docx format was an attempt to break backward compatibility and force an upgrade. The interface is bad, and I get calls from coworkers who have been using it for a couple of years now that can't find stuff they did on 97-03.