The learning curve in going from pre-Office 2007 apps to Office 2007 is pretty step due to the use of the ribbon in Office 2007. Not only is there a lot of new functionality, but the menus are displayed so differently that it takes some people a long time to get used to it. If you want to soften the learning curve, try installing the UBitMenu plug-in for Office 2007 from http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/. It update the menus in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 so that you have all of the same new functionality, but it's presented in a more familiar way without the ribbon.