I don't know what I am missing here, but where is the "office button" you refer to? I've looked at every menu, everything, but I do not find ANY references to options.
Is there a master program, which allows you to open each program that makes up Office? I've even checked every .exe file in my program listing that is under Microsoft Office. When I open Word, that's it, just Word.

As an aside, it is curious that Word does not seem to have an "about." I know I have Office 2007, but I could not prove it by anything accessible from Word [or anyof the other Office program for that matter]

I guess I need a bit of hand holding to find my way to the Word options.