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About this lesson
Learn how to control where you type and how to navigate within the page.
Quick reference
Navigating the Page
Learn how to control where you type and how to navigate within the page.
When to use
This is useful every time you are in Microsoft 365 Word. Knowing where your insertion point is and where it should be is vital to getting a document finished in a timely manner.
Instructions
- Double-click anywhere on the page and observe the insertion point placement.
- Use the Enter key to move the insertion point down.
- Use the Tab key to move the insertion point to the right.
- Use the Backspace key to move the insertion point to the left or up a line.
- Observe the alignment buttons in the Paragraph group to keep track of how your typing is aligned on the page.
- 00:04 This is a lesson on navigating page within Microsoft Word.
- 00:08 When we first open a brand new blank document and we click on the page,
- 00:12 notice we have a flashing insertion point,
- 00:15 that is your lifeline during your typing process.
- 00:18 Where the flashing insertion point is is where you will begin typing.
- 00:22 But then the problem becomes, how do we move that around?
- 00:25 Well, I'll start with some text.
- 00:28 Now I've finished the line, and I want to move my insertion point down.
- 00:32 So I'm going to press the Enter key on my keyboard.
- 00:36 When I press it once, it moves it down one line.
- 00:38 And vice versa, I can hit the backspace and move it up one line.
- 00:42 I'll go ahead and move it down one line.
- 00:44 There's another way to move the insertion point around and
- 00:47 that is simply a double-click using the I-beam.
- 00:50 Notice right here, my cursor, on the left hand margin is an arrow, but
- 00:54 when I come into the typing area of the page, it turns into a capital letter I.
- 00:59 That is why we call it the I-beam, it looks like the letter I in the alphabet.
- 01:04 As I float this letter I across the screen,
- 01:07 there's a new little icon attached to it, now that is a left align icon.
- 01:13 It happens to match, up on the ribbon, in the paragraph and
- 01:17 alignment buttons, the left align button.
- 01:20 Notice we also have a center button, a right align button,
- 01:25 and a fully justify, meaning flush left and right typing.
- 01:29 Okay, I'm going to bring the mouse right back down to my screen and
- 01:32 I'm going to go ahead and type a sentence.
- 01:36 I'll press Enter at the end.
- 01:39 And now I decide I want to center a title on my screen.
- 01:42 Instead of moving my mouse all the way up to the ribbons and
- 01:47 clicking the center button, I'm just going to float
- 01:51 my mouse until I see my I-beam change into a center icon.
- 01:55 And I literally double click, click, click, and
- 01:59 it drops it dead center on my screen.
- 02:05 Okay, I'll hit Enter again, and now I decide I want a right align sentence.
- 02:10 Again, I'll just float my mouse over to the right hand side until
- 02:15 the icon changes into a right aligned symbol.
- 02:19 Matches the one on top of the ribbons, I'm just going to double-click.
- 02:24 It drops the insertion point on the right side.
- 02:30 And now I'll bring it back to the left hand side, I didn't even hit Enter.
- 02:33 I'm just going to come over to the left hand side,
- 02:36 I can see the left alignment button, double-click.
- 02:44 So the ultimate lesson here is to look for the flashing insertion point.
- 02:50 As you move the I-beam around your screen,
- 02:52 it'll tell you when you're in a different center, right align, left align area.
- 02:55 And if you do want fully justify, in that case, you would have to come up and
- 03:00 hit the fully justified button.
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