As of Office 2010 the Ribbon has improved a lot more. It's still annoying, but it has really grown on me over the past few years. Another nice feature of 2010

As of Office 2010 the Ribbon has improved a lot more. It's still annoying, but it has really grown on me over the past few years. Another nice feature of 2010 is the addition of formatting options to the context menu, so you can easily change basic text and image formatting by right-clicking them instead of flipping through the Ribbon.