And how I loathe with a passion the Ribbon. Just give me all the icons in small all the time. Everything takes twice as many clicks as with my Mac.
While I sympathise with your sentiment (I am in fact a paid-up user of "classic office menu" of many years standing - I'd advise anyone against using cracked software as these days it is exceedingly likely to have a malware payload) actually, the ribbon isn't as bad as all that and worth getting used to for all the pain involved. There are a couple of tips/tweaks I would add for those who hate the basic MS UI.
In office, the worst aspects of the ribbon can be bypassed by customisation, adding the items you miss from the old way of doing things to the Quick Access Toolbar - by default the top line above the ribbon. Personally the ones I miss are "Format Painter", "Insert Table", "Borders" - you may have your own obviously. The easiest option to do this is to right click on the ribbon, customise, when the option widow appears, choose "Quick Access Toolbar" from the left hand side. Default is to present the "popular commands" that are a subset of all commands (obv). If you need to know what the icon you want on the quick access is called to find it in the list, find it on the ribbon and hover to see the name. Then, as a final twist, you can opt to show the Quick Access Toolbar below the ribbon. Combine that with closing the ribbon and you have all your icon commands on one line. It is hyper unlikely that your common use icons will be more than a line-full.
Then, if like me you loathe the default W10 toolbars with its mess of pinning programs and open windows, you may want to use the old Quicklaunch,
which is still available. Then, once you have removed search and Cortana, you can set up a two line toolbar at the bottom of the screen and organise your common programs into a block of, say, 10 or 12 small icons on the left next to the start button and the rest of the space will be your open windows, as ever was in W7.
