$ REWARD OFFERED $ for answer

[pfkorman]

I will transfer $1 into the Paypal account of the first person who has an
answer (that works) to the following:

We unfortunately recently downgraded from Office XP to Office 2007. While
typing documents and emails, we get red, blue, and green squiggly lines under
misspelled words, grammatical errors, abbreviations, acronyms, etc etc etc
all over the document. How in the world can we turn this off, permanently, in
all the Office apps?

Bonus question: The new ribbon feature in Office 2007 is undoubtably an
abysmal, space-wasting, user-hostile impediment to productivity. What was
Microsoft thinking when they put it in and have the ribbon developers been
punished?

 

[Peter Foldes]

In Word go to Tools\Options\Spelling and Grammar

 

[Gemini]

LOL! I know how you feel re the Ribbon. So as to what MS was thinking, here's
a link to Jensen Harris' blog. He led the team that designed the Ribbon UI
and decided not to provide a classic UI alternative. You can read the whole
sordid saga on his blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/

hth!

-- Gemini

 

[Gordon]

LOL! I know how you feel re the Ribbon. So as to what MS was thinking,
here's
a link to Jensen Harris' blog. He led the team that designed the Ribbon UI
and decided not to provide a classic UI alternative. You can read the
whole
sordid saga on his blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/

And your answer to the OP's question is?

 

[Gemini]

That link provides an in-depth answer to the OP's "bonus" question. If the OP
needs more info, he/she is free to ask.

-- Gemini