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

Anonymous
2010-08-03T20:11:28+00:00

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

I'm talking about the Excel menu before this totally useless menu was introduced in Excel 2007.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-03T20:30:19+00:00

    You don't unless you can find 3rd party add-ins by doing a Google search for them.  We are forever stuck with them.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-03T20:36:04+00:00

    No way, I think that is pathetic. I'm not interested in spending $ to get back what I had before.

    A MS rep asked me why our organization is not upgrading to Office 2007 and I told him that we hate the menus, so he said they are making the classic menu available in Office 2010 - I guess he lied.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-03T20:41:53+00:00

    The menu structure is somewhat different in 2010 than 2007.  It is more customizeable than the 2007 ribbon is.  It is done by right clicking anywhere on the ribbon and then left clicking Customize the Ribbon.

    Still not the true drop down menus from 2003 and prior but it "ain't" goin' to get any better for a long time.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-13T12:01:36+00:00

    We gave our users the right to vote, we let them look at Office 2010 and OpenOffice and the vote was 100% for OpenOffice.

    So our 150 or so users will migrate to OpenOffice when they are ready. No need to fuss with some stupid menu ribbon thing.

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