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by lproven 350 days ago
If you are happy with the ribbon UI, then you are fine.

Personally, I can't stand it. So I use either Word 97, which has everything I need and a nicely minimal UI, and uses the same file formats as Office into the 21st century, or Word 2003.

Example (old) screenshot:

https://imgur.com/gallery/word-97-word-2003-under-wine-on-ub...

Note that in 97 I've turned off everything. No ribbon, no ruler, no toolbars, just menus and scroll bars, and I normally turn off the horizontal scrollbar too.

In Word 2003 I've left some of the clutter turned on so you can see the difference: the ruler and one toolbar.

Word 97 can't handle big portrait screens, for instance.