Well Microsoft offiice is a great product for sure but many of us feel lost in its ribbon interface and its default docx extension but in this post i will tell you about some freewares that will help you adjust with with Office 2007 keeping all of its new features and bring some old goodness to it.

1) Ribbon Customizer

This little add on for office 2007 does a great job it bring backs all hidden feature you can't find in office suite like menu for insert and format->font etc.Look at the screenshiot below for a clear idea of what am talking about

Before Ribbon Customizer

After Ribbon Customizer

So this tool adds a new tab and bring all features you love. It includes the following features

• Get Classic UI tabs for Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2007



• Use up to three pre-defined customizations in the form of .RIBX packages per Ribbon



• Quickly switch multiple customizations on and off



• Provide an easy way to add any groups you want to your Ribbon



• Reset tabs to the Microsoft default.

If you use Office in some other language other than english you can use Ubitmenu that does the same job but supports various languages.

Also to fix the DOCX extension issuse you can refer my this post :-

Run office 2007 file on older edition


Download Ribbon Customizer Download Ubitmenu

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