Ribbon - Home

Quick reference

• 00:04 On the Home ribbon, there are some buttons that are easily looked over.
• 00:08 And a lot of times, we assume knowledge about these buttons that we shouldn't.
• 00:12 because there are some great buttons in here that you need to know.
• 00:15 So first of all, let's take a look at some text on our screen.
• 00:18 I'm going to zoom in so we can actually see the text.
• 00:21 And I want to introduce you, first of all, I'm assuming you know cut, copy, paste.
• 00:25 But I don't want to ever assume.
• 00:26 So I'm going to copy this.
• 00:29 Now when I select it, I have some tools that pop up right here.
• 00:32 This is called the mini bar.
• 00:33 This I say is a gift of the gods of Microsoft.
• 00:36 They give us all these formating tools within a quarter inch of where I did my
• 00:40 click and drag.
• 00:41 I love it.
• 00:42 Now a lot of these tools are also on the home ribbon.
• 00:44 But maybe you're not conveniently on the home ribbon, so they're not handy.
• 00:49 So I can cut this with a little cut right here, the little tiny scissors.
• 00:53 Notice my tooltip comes up and says Ctrl+X.
• 00:56 I could also right-click and I also have the Cut, Copy,
• 00:59 Paste options down here as well.
• 01:01 So I'll cut that.
• 01:03 And now I'm just going to paste it right back in the same spot.
• 01:05 But should I paste it with all the formatting, should I paste it and
• 01:08 merge with other formatting, or should I just paste the text?
• 01:12 I'll paste the text, but of course it was already formatted, so it's fine.
• 01:15 That area, that textbox is formatted, so it's okay.
• 01:19 Let's go ahead and move on.
• 01:20 Now I want to show you the format painter.
• 01:22 So I'm going to, again, select this text.
• 01:25 Notice my mini bar comes up, it has this cute little paint brush over here.
• 01:28 It says Format Painter, Ctrl+Shift+C.
• 01:30 Also right here, Format Painter or a Ctrl+Shift+C.
• 01:33 And what this is going to do, it's going to copy the format and paste the format.
• 01:37 It's not going to copy the text.
• 01:39 I love it.
• 01:39 Second best button ever invented by Microsoft,
• 01:42 that cute little paint brush right there.
• 01:44 I'm going to click that once.
• 01:45 Cute little paint brush is attached to my mouse.
• 01:48 Now when I click and drag over any other text, as soon as I let go, there you go.
• 01:52 Is that the greatest thing in the world?
• 01:54 Love, love, love it.
• 01:55 All right, at this point, that text is too big.
• 01:58 I like the format, I just don't like the size.
• 02:00 So let's go into the font section.
• 02:02 Now, I'm looking at Cambria, 37.9.
• 02:05 Well, I don't know.
• 02:06 Do you think 36 would work, or 35?
• 02:08 I'm not going to sit here and guess on numbers.
• 02:10 I'm going to use the two buttons right next to it.
• 02:12 Now, any time there's a button with the letter A, it means alphabet or text.
• 02:17 So this is alphabet bigger, alphabet smaller, smaller, smaller,
• 02:21 smaller, smaller.
• 02:22 I like that. Size 24.
• 02:24 You see that's why I use and love these two buttons.
• 02:26 And yes, by the way, they are on the right click on the minibar right up here,
• 02:31 the A up and the A down, increase, decrease font size.
• 02:34 Love it. All right, now, of course we have bold,
• 02:36 italicize, underline, that's what the B, the I, and the U mean.
• 02:39 And then we have Subscript and Superscript.
• 02:42 Hmm, well, let's go ahead and show you what those are about.
• 02:45 I'm going to double click the word newsletter, and
• 02:47 I'm going to hit Subscript.
• 02:48 It's basically going to take the text and set it below the line of print.
• 02:52 Click. There we go.
• 02:54 And I'm going to take the word provide, double-click that, and
• 02:57 set that above the line of print, click, there we go.
• 03:00 See what happened?
• 03:02 Newsletter's below the line, provide is above the line, that is subscript,
• 03:06 below the water, superscript, above the water.
• 03:08 All right, here we go.
• 03:10 As soon as you've got that done, we can change even more.
• 03:13 We have this little A with a dropdown,
• 03:17 for Small Caps, or Normal caps, or All Caps.
• 03:21 I'm sorry, so we have Normal, Small Caps, All Caps.
• 03:24 I'm going to stick with Normal.
• 03:26 This is Spacing.
• 03:27 Now let's see, get in one, two, three.
• 03:31 A double click will select a word, a triple click will select a paragraph.
• 03:34 So I did a triple click to select the entire paragraph.
• 03:37 Now watch what happens with this.
• 03:38 Very tight letters.
• 03:40 Tight, Normal, Loose, or Very Loose letters.
• 03:43 See what happens?
• 03:44 It really spreads them out.
• 03:45 You have a lot of control over what you are working on.
• 03:49 Here of course I can change the color of my text.
• 03:51 It inverts on the color wheel to the opposite.
• 03:55 So, even though I chose blue, it inverts it to orange,
• 03:57 because they're opposite on the color wheel.
• 03:58 When I click off of it, you'll see the blue.
• 04:00 There you go. So don't freak out if it's not the right
• 04:02 color for you.
• 04:03 And then what if I want to wipe all this formatting off of all this whole section?
• 04:07 I just want to wipe the formatting.
• 04:09 Well, see this button with the red?
• 04:11 That's a little pink eraser.
• 04:12 Remember in high school, we had those flat rectangle erasers?
• 04:15 That's what that pink thing is.
• 04:17 So I'm going to click that.
• 04:18 Wipes all the formatting off of it.
• 04:20 We're ready to go.
• 04:21 All right, I just want to make sure you're familiar with those text options,
• 04:24 because they're actually pretty creative.
• 04:27 And they're on the Home ribbon.

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