How do I get the classic Excel menu back in Excel 2010

Graham, BTW I changed the extension as suggested - interesting...and you can see the degree of compression.

To be clear, I have no hopes about Word and WordPerfect, but I can dream, can't I...?... Mind you, I have more important things to dream about, you will be relieved to know...

I replied first to the less arrogant and more useful post. That reply applies to yours as well. My frustration remains one that MS should consider. As to your statement: 

"Those changes were necessary to enable the Office product to be developed across different platforms."

They could have been additions not at the expense of patterns ingrained in power users... It's like telling someone that plays the piano that all the keys are now in a different place because now you have an LCD doable charts option that any maker (Yamaha or Technics,  etc.) can use too. 

And your last and most arrogant addition...

"Microsoft is not going back to the classic menu system any time soon, so get over it and move on."

Users screamed loud enough and the Classic Windows menu reincorporated. 

Last,  I obviously I'm aware of hotkeys and I see tow instances running but they are not sure by side nor are they minimizable  without doing further digging or using icons. 

I will get over it as I have no choice. That certainly doesn't make a difference to my point and your response speaks volumes about you.

For sure... I have zero issue with change. And in fact have already done some digging to figure out. What I need to know at the expense of time using a product that's crippled comparatively yet now has the ribbon (useful but still not as fast).adding functionality is fantastic. Removing useful prior functionality in my opinion,  is not. 

The frustration I have is and was felt by millions them and every time someone transfers from 2003...which incidentally lasted as long as it did due to the exceptional way it operates. I will of course adapt but my point remains; just as it did for Win8 to 10 when the classic. Menu was brought back and for good reason. Glad you're enjoying it now and thanks for the input!

I am sure I was never as fast as KC_69 in using Excel keyboard shortcuts...but I was a dab hand at using them in Lotus 1-2-3, which I had known since DOS days.  My transition to Excel (2000) took a while and was not without pain but I really took to it after I acquired MS Office 2010. I have no doubt the ribbon interface helped.

Furthermore, since early last year I (think I have) finally abandoned WordPerfect.  My v2000 failed to work in my then new Win 8.1 64 bit computer and I evaluated the latest compatible version.  I still think that WP is superior in a number of ways but I was disappointed that the interface did not have the modern, attractive look of Word, and the ribbon has helped me get to grips with Word's way of working.  Furthermore, one great feature of WP 2000 has been lost in the newer versions; this is the integration of a file viewer with the WP file manager, i.e. when opening the File/Open window in WP you could highlight any file such as .wpd, .pdf and .doc and view the contents before opening it.

Fortunately my .wpd files open in Word 2010, even if not always with the correct fonts/formatting.  Plus, despite the (not huge) inconvenience my (now) standalone Quick View Plus viewer is brilliant at letting me look into lots of legacy file types.

Maybe we could say that "Actually it speaks volumes of the age of the person" when speaking of critics of the ribbon interface... :-)

PS. From what (little) I have seen of the Office 2003 interface I must say it looked a lot nicer than 2000, so maybe that is why migrators from there felt more aggrieved than those moving on from 2000.