Microsoft Word for the Mac: easy to use?

I’m a big fan of iWork (especially Keynote) because it’s so clean and straightforward. Meanwhile, I’ve been using Office 2004 for the Mac, in no small part in order to avoid the ribbon in the newer versions of Office.

However, recently the Rosetta emulation - as amazing as it is - seems to be dragging down my efficiency mojo a bit, so I decided to wander over to the Word:Mac 2008 page to see what’s up these days, and to see if the ribbon is still there.

Strangely, there’s no actual screenshot of Word to be found on the Word page, and I’m not really going to sit through several minutes’ worth of videos to see if I can find the ribbon (or not), so I decide to check out the links to the right.

First link?  ”Featured Article: Change page margins.” (emphasis mine)

Something tells me that there’s still some work to be done on the Word UI.