I'm using Office 2013 after MANY years of using and loving Office 2000. I'm reduced to beginner level user all over again and everything in Word is a mystery to me.

For starters, I can't find any way to show the old-fashioned menu bar with ":File Edit View Format etc." headings. I hope it is still possible to show and use in this version of Word.

When I open a Word document the menu titles on top are "File Home Insert etc.".
Below this bar are several boxers (which occupy an inordinate amount of window space) which say, for example" "Ruler Guidelines" or "100%" etc. I believe I understand what these windows' contents are for and what they do. To the left of the document itself is a box taking up still more window space titled "Document Recovery." I don't know why the Word document window must be so crowded with boxes full of basic functions all of which used to b e accessible in the blessedly space-saving menu bar in older versions.

So I basically want to know if I can get rid of all the obnoxiously distracting boxes above and beside the actual document and, I pray, if all that stuff can be replaced by the very good but very antiquated classic menu bar?

Please forgive my curmudgeonly tone but it's hard to find for a gradate of Office 2000 who had earned a master-user proficiency to suddenly find himself in kindergarten again with Word 2013.