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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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You can also try the suggestion made by Dhonzik and others , in the thread link below to get to get the addin for classic menus in office 2010:-
"MS's treachery"
"That is the wimpishness of a coward who is wrong but cannot argue the merits."
Wow!
Impressively aggressive.
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No, you only 'minimize' it. You are right.
Recently I read somewhere (in this thread?) that there is a third-party app that brings back the old menu interface. Of course that may not be entirely satisfactory but at least it is a 'workaround'.
Reminds me of the (no less vehement) arguments about the Win 8 interface and the Start button/menu. One can obtain third-party software to give the previous interface and quite a few people expressed satisfaction with it (according to comments in some tech forums).
>>it is inaccurate and demeaning to characterize potentially highly intelligent users as "fearing change." '
>I think that is a little harsh and, indeed, inaccurate. I think intelligence has little to do with welcoming or fearing change.
The point is that someone with less intelligence should not reveal their frustration with smarter users who condemn MS's treachery by INACCURATELY saying that they "fear change." That is the wimpishness of a coward who is wrong but cannot argue the merits.
>you go on about the difficulties in finding conditional formatting in Excel.
Go alt-O in any version prior to 2007 and you see Conditional Formatting. What happens when you go alt-O? The answer is, you have to REMEMBER what the next keystroke is.
But you use the mouse and will never have a clue what supernaturally productive keyboard users are doing. So no shocker that you "like the ribbon."
And if you hang your hat on Conditional Formatting, the most mangled interface item in the history of Excel (SINCE 2003, that is) - please google the word clueless.
>I like the ribbon in general
It's not the RIBBON that is the issue. It is the concealment of choices that were 100% visible in the menu system.
>BTW, you can turn the ribbon off (at least in 2010).
Please google and regoogle the word ...