As a casual user, it's made Word usable when I need to use it.
Re:That’s it, we’re quitting
by tankenmate on Saturday March 26, 2011 @07:18PM
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This is the engineering equivalent of offering discounts to new users, while ignoring loyal customers; it leads to churn, but not much progress for day to day users (i.e. the biggest users of the software). Applications that I like the most have "levels" of the user interface; you can switch to a more complete, complex, user interface once you get more used to the program.
Your wife might like this: http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/
My wife however, much more of a "power" office user, has completely sworn off of them. This is a person that knew pretty much where every menu item on word and excel was by memory. Her experience has been destroyed, so much that I needed to re-install 2003 on all the machines that she would use.
Most certainly tripping on couches.