Classic Style Menus for Office 2007

A powerful and easy-to-use add-in for showing the classic menus and toolbars of Microsoft Office 2003 on Ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007. It supports all languages that are supported by Office 2007 including: English, French, German, Japanese and more.

Pros: This application provides a familiar interface to the new set of MS Office suite of products. It helps show classic 2003 menus on the Office 2007 ribbon. All of the new features of the 2007 suite of products are added and the languages supported on the 2007 set are supported by this application too in the menus and the toolbars. These include English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, Chinese and more.

On the new 2007 set of product menus it is always an issue how do you find the right functions on which tab of the ribbon! What this does is give you familiarity you earned after using the 2003 products and save you the fumbling around. After installation the 2007 product ribbons would show the familiar menus and toolbars. That bypasses the learning curve and gets you productive right away. The product actually is a suite of menus and toolbars for MS Excel 2007, Word 2007 and PowerPoint 2007. There are several versions of the product and you can pick the right one that suits your style and budget. The versions are Basic, Standard, Home and Student, Small Business, Professional, Professional Plus, Enterprise and Ultimate. Install and uninstall is easy of course, but more importantly you could hide/unhide or enable/disable menu & toolbars easily. It has a very small footprint too.

Cons: The product can ease the transition to the newer products of course. But it is always good to get into the thick of it and start learning so that you can use the new functionality quickly. So even if you plan to use this product, your aim should be to make the move to native menus of the 2007 products.

Overall: The product concept is good and helps with the transition. It is rated at 4 stars overall.

A powerful and easy-to-use add-in for showing the classic menus and toolbars of Microsoft Office 2003 on Ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007.
All of the new features in Microsoft Office 2007 have been added into the Classic Style Menus and Toolbars.
Supports all languages that are supported by Microsoft Office 2007 including: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, Chinese and more.
Did you waste a lot of time at finding which Tab on Ribbon includes the function you want when you working on Microsoft Office 2007? Please do not worry about it. Now Classic Style Menus and Toolbars bring back the familiar menus and toolbars to your Microsoft Office 2007.
When you start up Microsoft Office 2007 after installing the software, you will see the familiar menus and toolbars of Microsoft Office 2003 on the Ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007. You can start your jobs immediately and finish them quickly as using Microsoft Office 2003.
The software is a suite of Classic Style Menus and Toolbars. It includes the following add ins:
Classic Style Menus and Toolbars for Microsoft Excel 2007,
Classic Style Menus and Toolbars for Microsoft Word 2007,
Classic Style Menus and Toolbars for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.
You will get a smooth learning and training curve for all of Office 2007 Suites and use them immediately: Basic, Standard, Home and Student, Small Business, Professional, Professional Plus, Enterprise and Ultimate.
Easy to enable or disable the menus and toolbars.
Easy to show or hide the original tabs on Ribbon, including Home, Insert, Page Layout, View, Review and more.
Easy to deploy to client computers in your Enterprise or Organization.
Easy to install and uninstall this software.
Quickly find and execute the command that you want.
Small file size: only less than 800 KB! ( 0.8 MB )
You can decide where the menus should be shown.
Fast start up and use it immediately!