Regardless of whether or not you call it the Fluent UI or the Ribbon interface, the Office 2007 menu system has been a controversal topic. It is refreshing (and validating) that now that customers have been using it for a while, we hear extremely positive feedback.

 

One of the more useful tools I've seen, particularly for beginning Office 2007 users is the 'Search Commands' add-in from Office Labs.

 

This add-in allows a user to type by keyword or name, the Office function they want to execute and the menu is dynamically updated with relevant menu commands.

 

Nice work from our Office labs team!