How useful are Word 5.1a menus in Office 2004?



Printing issues seem to be forcing me to upgrade from my beloved Word
5.1a to the current version of Microsoft Office. I tried this once
before, "upgrading" a few years ago to Office X. What a disaster;
after a week I sent Office back to Microsoft and ran screaming back to
5.1a in frustrated disgust.

Will I do any better now with Word 2004? I'm intrigued by the option of
selecting menus that match 5.1a. What drove me nuts last time was
having to spend literally hours digging around in the totally
unintuitive interface (with little help from the unintuitive
documentation) trying to figure out how to do little things (like
printing an envelope) that took a single obvious keystroke in 5.1a.

Will the '5.x menu' option really let me work with Word 2004 as though
it were 5.1a?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Zack

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