Navigating the Page

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, in this lesson I want to talk to you about navigating through the document,
• 00:08 and it's basically with the insertion point.
• 00:11 If you'll take a look right over here on the word Hello,
• 00:13 right at the very end I have a flashing line.
• 00:16 That flashing line is called your insertion point.
• 00:19 Your insertion point is your lifeline.
• 00:20 Wherever that is, is where you are about to type.
• 00:23 Whether you like it or not, that is a reality.
• 00:26 Now floating right next to it moving around is a little capital letter I,
• 00:30 that is your cursor placement tool.
• 00:33 It's basically called the I-beam,
• 00:35 because it is shaped like the capital letter I of the English language.
• 00:39 So I have an insertion point flashing beside the word Hello, so
• 00:43 I'm just gonna type Student.
• 00:45 And now to move my insertion point down a line,
• 00:48 I'm going to hit the Enter key on my keyboard, and there it is.
• 00:51 Now I can type a sentence, and
• 00:53 the insertion point is at the end of the sentence.
• 00:57 I'll hit my space bar and type another sentence, basically the same one.
• 01:01 Now I want to move down so I'll hit my Enter key.
• 01:03 And so, as you can see, that's how it works.
• 01:06 Now if I hit my Tab key on my keyboard, it says Tab, you can tab over once and
• 01:11 type a sentence.
• 01:12 I can tab three more times and it jumps ahead by half inch spaces and
• 01:16 I can type another sentence.
• 01:18 Now I'm gonna hit Enter a couple times to give it some space,
• 01:21 then I'm gonna scroll down a little bit.
• 01:23 All right, now the I-beam that's on the center of my screen,
• 01:26 I'm moving around, there's a little trick with this thing.
• 01:29 You can actually double-click anywhere on the piece of paper, double-click and
• 01:34 it will force your insertion point to go to that spot.
• 01:37 So let's see, double-click, there it is,
• 01:41 right dead center of the screen and now I can type a sentence again, okay?
• 01:46 Now I can double-click way over here on the right hand side of the screen and
• 01:50 it forces the insertion point right there and I can type a sentence again.
• 01:54 Now, something happened here that you aren't gonna notice cuz I didn't point it
• 01:59 out quite yet.
• 02:00 But I want you to pay attention right up here to this little group called
• 02:02 Paragraph.
• 02:04 Now when I click into this sentence, it's aligned left.
• 02:07 Notice that this little paragraph button came on to tell me I'm aligned left.
• 02:12 Now on this one in the center,
• 02:13 cuz I clicked in the center of the page, watch this button right here.
• 02:17 It's about to light up.
• 02:19 I'm gonna click right here, and there it is.
• 02:21 It lit up cuz it knows I'm in the center of the page.
• 02:24 Now this one, right down here?
• 02:25 Since I double-clicked on the right-hand side,
• 02:27 this third button is going to light up when I click onto this sentence.
• 02:31 There you go.
• 02:32 So it's just basically telling you, even though you double-clicked on the paper,
• 02:36 Microsoft Word was smart enough to know, you want that right aligned or
• 02:39 you want this one center aligned.
• 02:41 Now you can of course force anything to go where you want it.
• 02:45 So I'm gonna scroll down a little further.
• 02:48 So right down here I'll double-click to force my insertion point and
• 02:53 I'll paste a sentence.
• 02:55 And now I wanna force this sentence to go to the right.
• 02:58 Well, I'm already still clicked into the sentence, so
• 03:00 I'm just going to hit this button.
• 03:02 And there it's slammed right over to the right-hand side of the paper.
• 03:05 Change your mind and want it in the center?
• 03:06 Okay, just click Center and there it is, or click Left and
• 03:10 it comes back to the left.
• 03:11 You have full control over where your sentences land.
• 03:15 Now you can move them around with space bars and tabs or
• 03:18 you can double-click before you even start typing or
• 03:22 even after you've typed it, you can move them around by pressing these buttons.
• 03:26 All right, so that is how you navigate around the document and
• 03:29 that is how you place text in different spots.
• 03:32 You have a lot of control over this document, you just didn't know that.
• 03:36 So, there you go. Thank you so much.

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