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

Over the years Microsoft even improved menus smartly in a couple of regards, such as "MRU" smarts, making less used menu items invisible (but you could restore visibility with almost no effort, and under your control); and having submenus (optional expansions of menu items, the little triangles pointing to the right on menus) was powerful - you could move VERY rapidly by skipping over expansions that you know are rabbit holes.

Microsoft: just provide all the choices under menus. THAT WOULD ELIMINATE HAVING TO MEMORIZE WHERE THINGS ARE. No matter how many times you say, "you just have to get used to it," you will ALWAYS have to Memorize Where Things Are to use a ribbon interface. With a menu interface, you NEVER have to memorize where they are. You can just arrow through everything, until you land on what you need.

The rationalization that "you can become functional if you learn and memorize" where things are kept is simply insane. Insane. When you don't have to do that at ALL with menus.

The rationalization that "you can be productive with ribbons" is insane, in the face of *high-productivity* with MENUS.

No wonder the United States is falling behind. I don't think it got to where it is, or was, from rationalization. Lame.

Earlier, someone hit the nail on the head with what the problem is, and clearly 95% of the rest of the world doesn't "get" it. How can you find something that's (insanely) now tucked away under something called "Prepare" unless you can (*with the keyboard*) browse through all the choices? THAT is what menus achieved. You could rapidly arrow through *all* the choices and always get to what you need.

Look, it's swell that you the conditioned user have somehow managed to find how to get to Print Preview now. And to what now passes for Page Setup. But what about those that haven't wasted the time to memorize where things are hidden? How about just having a menu item called FILE so you can hit alt-F and find all of those things. Every time. Rapidly and productively. (And before you object: those are only two examples. There are dozens and dozens of others.)

UBitMenu only does a fraction of what is needed, just like every other "classic menu" item I have tested. This product is frequently cited by superficial usage software writers/reviewers who tried it out and saw that it does SOMEthing useful, so they write that this is what you need to get useful menus out of the anti-productive ribbons. No offense; the reviewers may be competent and may even be experienced Excel users, but are misguided and uninformed in recommending UBitMenu.

The earlier comment example of using a filter is a great one. Before, in Office 2003 when you could find things and work productively, you'd go alt-D and then F and "visually browse" for the choice you need. Now you can't. With UBitMenu too.

The issue is, as has been frequently stated in earlier replies, you still can't "visually browse" for the choice you want. You have to know exactly which choice you want. If you have that, fine; but when you don't have every click choice in Excel memorized, waste, waste, waste of time and productivity. And vicious frustration - because there was no need for this pain to exist. There still isn't, Microsoft; all this anger and damage can still be repaired - easily - using technology that has long been mastered.

UBit does, indeed, look like a useful bit of software for those who still find the ribbon difficult.

But there is a telling paragraph on the UBit website:

"UBitMenu does not hide the ribbon interface, but adds the classic menu as a new ribbon. Gradually you will realize that many functions are easier to handle using Office ribbons. Microsoft® has done a good job there. "

(My emphasis)