I’ve tried everything I can find online and don’t see anything in my Office Startup Folders that would seem to launch this.

Anyone have any suggestions?

I need to change my Office 2007 interface language between Japanese and English frequently as a result of work requirement. However, UBit Menu does not support two languages at the same time. The Japanese setup.exe does not support English, and the English setup.exe does not support Japanese.
But the Classic Menu for Office 2007 does well! No matter when and how I changed the Office 2007 interface language, the drop down menus and toolbar are shown in the same language of my Office 2007 language. I do not need to download another setup.exe packages at all. What’s more, those drop down menus and toolbars are valid in Outlook 2007 and Access 2007 too.
Classic Menu for Office 2007 may be better choice.

The first thing I needed after downloading a report into excel was to change format of some numbers using “text to columns” function. So I started typing as I was used to in 2003 and voila, littel window jumped out saying “Office 2003 access key ALT, D, Continue typing the office 2003 menu key sequence…” and it worked without a hitch. So if you are used to using menu keys, you have no problem. If you always used manual navigation in the menus, well, I’d say it is time to learn something new.

Personally, I only use shortcuts for functions that are more then 2 clicks away and I can say that I was used to the new interface within a day without major issue. I would say it takes more time to get used to the new functionalities (like enhanced conditional formating, changed system of pivot tables, etc) than the new interface.

By the way, the Classic Menu for Home and Student is free for private use, it includes Classic Menu for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. I love it.

You can find the software from http://www.addintools.com/index.html

MS has done this quite often recently. They have forgotten what made them popular. Ensuring that each release was upwardly compatible, for at least 2 generations.

The ribbon itself is a great idea for those that don’t know office well. If you are a power user, there is a problem because the ribbon is static. It should adapt itself dynamically to prioritize the most frequently used commands. Also, it uses a lot of real-estate on the screen for what it does, as compared to old style menus.

I don’t need the UI “fixed” because, using a word processor is not supposed to be a time consuming task. I have REAL work to do other than figuring out what is the 2007 keys of “ALT-V, N, enter” in 2003.

Its just like changing the meaning of CTRL-C, CTRL-X and CTRL-V every 4 versions of an application. See how you would like it if on the next version you hit CTRL-Z and it saves and exit a document.

Microsoft R&D and fan boys are generally very supportive of intrusive changes. I for one, will not take BS reasons like interface improvements w/o providing backward compatibility in interfaces.

If you got hours in your life to waste to learn a new proprietory interface, go ahead. I rather type with notepad instead.