My Microsoft Word 2008 (Mac Word) on my Macbook won't show me the necessary toolbar above it?

Typically when you open Microsoft Word, you see the necessary components above in the toolbar to get you through whatever it is that your doing. You see the tools to change font size, font type, paragraph indents in the middle, left, or right, underlining or bolding the text, all this stuff. But for some reason it's completely blank. All I see is five garbage tool options which are (Doent Elements, Quick Tables, Charts, SmartArt Graphics, and WordArt). This is doing nothing for me and I want to get it back to the way it was. Can someone please help me?