Writing a Report with Microsoft Office

I am participating in writing a report with Microsoft Office at my work. It is a rather miserable task. I much prefer the "styles" and "table of content" methods found in OpenOffice. It is very frustrating working with the new Microsoft Office ribbon. It takes many more clicks to find what I am looking for. Also, the help file "features" a video, but all I need is a quick answer to a question - not to have my time eaten up by pointless bloat.

As a final shot, the report came to me in a 26MB format. By compressing pictures, I was able to reduce it to 22 MB. It is crazy to have a file format so inefficient that it produces such huge file sizes. My dissertation had many more pictures and much more text, and still never even approached the file size of the report I am currently working on.