How to Enable Classic Menu in Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 – Change Ribbon Menu

Change the Ribbon Menu in Microsoft Office to Classic Display

If you are like many users out there you are probably not happy with the new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” interface that completely changes the way your menus look at the top of the page.

While Microsoft made this change to improve productivity, some people really don’t like the new layout and I don’t blame them.

In several cases customers I was working with even asked me if there was a way to disable the ribbon menu and change it back to the classic Office 2003 menu.

Unfortunately there isn’t an easy way to do this right through Microsoft Office but as always I have an alternative solution that will allow you to change Microsoft Office 2007 or Office 2010 back to the classic menu you are accustomed to.

The best method I found was using a program called “Classic Menu for Microsoft Office” from Detong Technology Ltd. The program is free to try but costs $29.95 to purchase if you decide to continue using it. Well worth it for most business customers, and as a home user how much is your productivity worth?

You can download the program for Microsoft Office 2007 or Office 2010 by making the proper selection at the top of the webpage.

Once you have installed the program the “Classic Menu Manager” should display on the screen. The classic menu manager allows you to toggle options for each of the Microsoft Office programs on the system.

In the tabs you can enable or disable the classic menus, as well as modify additional details about how you would like the program to display things in Microsoft Office.

This is a great alternative for customers who are unhappy with the new Microsoft Office Ribbon menu and want to change back to the classic Microsoft Office menu.