Calm Down, Little Tiger.

Jim hit me up on IM earlier today to tell me to take a deep breath, because Office 2007 is not the spawn of the devil.

He proceeded to enthusiastically enumerate the ways in which Excel 2007 is superior to its predecessor — so enthusiastically, in fact, that I gave in and just let my hate for the new look go. I may not like it — especially PowerPoint, argh — but I’ll give it some time, and see if it’s just the learning curve or actual flaws.

Mostly, he told me (without so many words) to go play in Excel, which I did, and honestly did make me happy.

(But I still don’t think the Ribbon is my Very Special Friend, Jim. I remain suspicious of the Ribbon’s intentions.)