The Ribbon and Word Screen

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello and welcome to the Word 2013 screen.
• 00:07 When you first open up Microsoft Word,
• 00:09 you're going to be seeing a list of recent documents,
• 00:12 if you had opened any, an option to go find other documents on your computer, and
• 00:16 over on the right hand side, a series of different options to open different types
• 00:21 of documents, but we're gonna head for this first one that says, blank document.
• 00:25 When I double click blank document it opens up the main screen.
• 00:28 And here I wanna give you just, kind of, a tour of the overall screen itself to
• 00:32 familiarize yourself with the options you have available.
• 00:36 On the upper top left, right above file and home,
• 00:38 this is called the quick access bar.
• 00:40 In the second video we'll be customizing that.
• 00:43 Right below the quick access bar are a series of ribbons.
• 00:45 Now the ribbons are a bunch of, basically toolbar,
• 00:48 they call them ribbons simply because they're stretched out and
• 00:51 they have all the options available to you on them.
• 00:53 You can go ahead and click through those tabs just to observe all
• 00:55 the different types of buttons that are in there.
• 00:58 Over on the right hand side, upper right hand corner, we have a question mark and
• 01:03 that's always to go find help.
• 01:05 You can ask a certain question in there.
• 01:06 And the next tab, that's called the ribbon display options.
• 01:10 Now the ribbons don't just appear with all the buttons.
• 01:12 You have options to turn those ribbons on and off.
• 01:15 So maybe you just want to show the tabs of your ribbons instead of all the buttons.
• 01:19 Then of course you would click this ribbon display option and choose the Show Tabs.
• 01:23 Now this is handy if you work on a laptop and have a small screen and you actually
• 01:27 need that extra inch of room to read your document, you simply show the tabs.
• 01:31 Now you can still use the ribbon simply by clicking on the tab, all your buttons will
• 01:36 appear and when you click off the tabs vanish again, all the buttons vanish.
• 01:41 When I work on my PC, I like to have those open all the time, so
• 01:45 I always have mine set at show tabs and commands.
• 01:49 In 2013, they've given us this operator, it's called the ribbon display options.
• 01:53 Previous versions didn't have this little operator in the corner.
• 01:57 You would just have to know that a double-click on the ribbon tab, click,
• 02:00 click, would make them vanish and
• 02:02 to get them back, click, click will lock them in place again.
• 02:06 Another thing on these ribbons, we have the top hierarchy as Home, Insert, Design,
• 02:10 but the second level hierarchy happens to be at the bottom of these.
• 02:14 It's called group names.
• 02:15 So this is the Clipboard group, and then the Font group, and
• 02:18 then the Paragraph group.
• 02:19 In between the tab headings and the group names.
• 02:22 Are all the busy buttons, that would be the third level.
• 02:25 Notice on some of these we have Clipboard with the little triangle on the corner.
• 02:29 That's called a dialogue box operator.
• 02:31 So if I click the dialogue box operator for fonts,
• 02:34 here's every possible thing I can do with fonts buried behind this box, and
• 02:39 the reason is, they couldn't fit them all on the ribbon.
• 02:41 So they put the most popular ones on the ribbon, hid the rest in this little box.
• 02:45 You just have to know that you have to look for
• 02:47 these little dialog box operators.
• 02:49 Now when I click on my insert ribbon, you can see here that in each little group,
• 02:53 there's not one single dialog box operator.
• 02:56 So all of the buttons available for our insert ribbon are on that screen.
• 03:00 I'll go ahead and click back on my home ribbon just so you can see this.
• 03:04 Okay, over on the screen itself on the right hand side this is a scroll box
• 03:07 where you can scroll up and down and see the entire document.
• 03:10 On the very bottom, this is the zoom control.
• 03:12 Zoom control has nothing to do with font size,
• 03:15 it simply has to do with how big you want to see it on your screen.
• 03:18 So you can zoom in and out using this little lever.
• 03:22 To the left of the zoom control are print and reading layouts.
• 03:26 So I can click Reading mode, now if I'm reading an e-book,
• 03:29 this just happens to allow me to click right to turn the page.
• 03:34 I prefer to stay on my print layout, at all times, I like to see my margin
• 03:38 areas and I like to see the desktop in the background, or the web layout,
• 03:42 if you're designing something go up to the web view you would use this one.
• 03:45 But for the purpose of this course,
• 03:46 I'm gonna leave mine on the print layout screen.
• 03:49 Over here on the left simply shows us page one of one and
• 03:52 how many words that are typed on this screen.
• 03:54 So the moment I type a word, this will change to one word right there.
• 04:00 Okay, that's it for our screen at this time.
• 04:03 That's simply a review corner to corner to get you familiar with the areas that
• 04:06 you'll be working with and
• 04:07 in the next video your going to be customizing a quick access bar.
• 04:10 Thank you.

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