I currently use Office 2003, mainly Word and Excel. I recently tried the Trial version of Office 2013 and hated it - I want a traditional Windows app not a web site look-a-like. However, I would still like to upgrade to a newer version. What is the last version that will look familiar to me?
Thanks. I hope its clear what I'm looking for.

Office 2003 is the last version with the traditional toolbars. There are addins for later versions (of Word, at least) that give them a similar look and feel to the older versions, though.

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I'm certainly not interested in investing time in learning a new way of doing things. If I was going to upgrade I would want to be able to do what I did before, but also do more things. It doesn't sound as if this is possible.

If you're used to working with keyboard shortcuts, those will mostly work the same as before and, as I said, there are addins available to give Word the toolbar look & feel of Word 2003. Do be aware, though, that if you don't upgrade you'll be unable to share documents that use the newer features (e.g. content controls, citations & bibliography, etc) and this will increase over time.

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Where would I look for these addins?

See, for example:
http://www.addintools.com/office2010/word/index.html
http://www.mswordhelp.com/the-toolbar-in-word-2010/
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/c...-word-2010.htm

See also: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...101794130.aspx

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