The ribbon should be able to be moved.

[pwoh]

It would be useful to make the ribbon in office 2007 movable - so I can have
the left, right or bottom, wherever I prefer it. Because I work mainly with
portrait A4 documents, a lot of the space at the side of the document is
wasted, whereas horizontal space is precious for me.

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[Bob I]

Minimize it.

 

[Barrie]

I love you!!! I've been suffering looking at that huge ribbon!

 

[pwoh]

Thanks, I know how to minimize it. But it would be nice to be able to move it
wherever I liked...I like that kind of flexiblity.

 

[Gordon]

Thanks, I know how to minimize it. But it would be nice to be able to move
it
wherever I liked...I like that kind of flexiblity.

You might - but just remember that the vast majority of Office installations
are in corporate environments, and the ability to customize to the nth
degree has been the corporate IT dept nightmare for years....hence (I
presume) the removal of most customizing ability from 2007...

 

[Harlan Grove]

You might - but just remember that the vast majority of Office installations
are in corporate environments, and the ability to customize to the nth
degree has been the corporate IT dept nightmare for years....hence (I
presume) the removal of most customizing ability from 2007...

So Microsoft did away with group policies in Office 2007 and/or didn't
have them in earlier Office versions? And there have never been and
aren't any group policy settings to curtail or eliminate user
customizations? And as a last resort, no one in IT/IS departments
could figure out how to make UI files read-only, e.g., Excel's .TLB
files?

There were other ways to prevent unwanted user customization in
corporate or governmental environments. There's another reason
Microsoft did this - customer lock-in, hence the effluent UI's
licensing terms preventing software that directly competes with Office
from using it.