[frosted-flakes]

Microsoft Office has barely changed since Office 2007 and the introduction of the Ribbon. They screwed up the File menu by making it full-screen†, but apart from that I can't see anything to complain about.

† The original 2007 "Office" menu like in File Explorer or Paint is loads better.

[downerending]

It could be that the interface is so confusing and horrible that it only seems different each time I dig into it.

Each time I take a new job, I have to slog around in the config screens trying to figure out how to turn off all of Outlook's !@#$ing awful "corrections" that send my email in variable-width fonts and change my '--' strings into em dashes and so on, thereby destroying my emails to users. Every time I do this, it seems like the layout of this awful pile of config dialogs has rearranged itself. Is it just PTSD?

[frosted-flakes]

Yeah, well, Outlook is a different story. The Ribbon interface isn't really suited to a mail client, and Outlook has so much historical baggage that makes it ridiculously hard to use. I try my best to not use it, so I don't know how much it's changed.

But Word, PowerPoint, and to some extent, Excel? The Ribbon is really well thought-out and easy to use. It feels intuitive in a way that the old bloated menus never did. And the command search feature is actually really useful, and teaches you where a command is located so you can just go straight there next time.

[downerending]

This is hopelessly pedantic, but Outlook is (now) part of Microsoft Office. And matters to me the most since it's the only part of Office I hardly ever use.

[frosted-flakes]

Not hopelessly pedantic, it's very true. It's just that I've always hated Outlook and I'd honestly forgotten about it when I wrote that original comment.