> The old menu styles made each function roughly equal in their level. The ribbon is nothing more than a menu laid out in a grid, rather than a list. The tool

> The old menu styles made each function roughly equal in their level. The ribbon is nothing more than a menu laid out in a grid, rather than a list. The tool I'm referring to is the search box. It should be on the window chrome, alongside the ribbon tabs. You can find verification of that claim in your copy of Word, or basically any screenshot of it. The source is that it exists.