You obviously haven’t tried Office 2007 then... where they hide all the commands you need...
Not sure why Microsoft wants to force users to do things in their own awkward way, but they do.
I despise MS Office 7. I tried to use that at a friends house one time... she couldn’t find any of her old stuff to make it work and even I had HUGE trouble and I’m a total GEEK with stuff... it’s like MS said “How can we really screw them up so they have to buy Office 8”.
I HATE MS OFfice 2007. You are absolutely correct.
On a slightly related vein, guy at work sends me an email with a power point attachment, an important one. I try to open it with Power Point 2002, no dice. It asks me if I want to trouble shoot it. Sure, I say. The helpful debug message was, “I see you’re using Power Point 2002. You should upgrade to 2007.” I sent it home and opened it with Power Point ‘97, no problem. Thanks, but no thanks, Bill.