The Ribbon and Word Screen

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, and welcome to the Word 2016 opening screen.
• 00:08 On the left-hand panel, would be a list of documents you previously opened, or
• 00:12 of course, a link to go into your computer.
• 00:14 On the right-hand side, these are called templates.
• 00:16 They are available and free for you to use.
• 00:20 So, don't reinvent the wheel.
• 00:21 Just use one of these.
• 00:23 But for this lesson, I'm gonna start with a blank document.
• 00:26 So, I'm gonna double-click to go right into the Microsoft Word screen to
• 00:28 give you a quick overview.
• 00:30 On the very top left, there's a tiny little toolbar up here called
• 00:33 the Quick Access Toolbar, an incredibly important and productive toolbar.
• 00:38 We will have a separate lesson on that.
• 00:39 Please do not skip that video.
• 00:41 Again, it's called the Quick Access Toolbar.
• 00:43 In the center of our title bar up here, it says Document1 Word.
• 00:48 When we save and rename the document, the name will show up right here.
• 00:51 But right now, it simply says Document1.
• 00:53 On the right-hand side, there's a Sign In,
• 00:55 if you wanna connect your Microsoft Word to your Microsoft Live account.
• 00:58 And then, right here is a Ribbon Display Options.
• 01:02 When I activate that, I can just tell the computer or
• 01:05 the program just to show me the tabs, then the ribbons, and now all the buttons.
• 01:10 Well, that's fine, if I'm using a laptop and I don't have a lot of screen room.
• 01:13 But if I'm using a PC, I absolutely want to see all my buttons, so
• 01:18 they're readily available at a glance.
• 01:21 We have a flat line that says Minimize.
• 01:24 We have a button that says Maximize.
• 01:26 Then we have the Close button which is bright red, and I love that.
• 01:29 Now, again, about the ribbons.
• 01:31 Now, these ribbons, when you click across them, I have the Home and the Insert,
• 01:34 and the Draw.
• 01:35 It is not your imagination.
• 01:36 There are a ton of buttons under all of these.
• 01:38 I think ribbon is a very pretty name.
• 01:40 A better name probably would have been workbench,
• 01:42 because there are a ton of tools on here.
• 01:44 Now, there's a hierarchy you need to understand.
• 01:47 The top level is the Home, the Insert, the Draw.
• 01:50 The second level is actually listed under the busy buttons.
• 01:53 The Font group, the Paragraph group, the Styles group, and then, of course,
• 01:57 the third level would be the busy buttons in between.
• 01:59 It's just how they lay out their hierarchy.
• 02:01 Another thing on here are these dialog box operators.
• 02:05 This is where all the rest of the buttons are that they couldn't fit on the ribbon.
• 02:09 So when I click this little dialog box operator,
• 02:12 here's everything I can do with Fonts, and I'll close that.
• 02:16 Here's everything I can do with Paragraphs, and I'll close that.
• 02:20 Now, notice on our Insert ribbon, there's not one dialog box operator here,
• 02:24 because they were able to fit all the actions onto the written area.
• 02:28 So don't ignore those little tiny grey buttons.
• 02:31 They actually have magic powers behind them.
• 02:35 All right, another thing is I showed you this box here where you can actually show
• 02:39 tabs or show all the commands.
• 02:41 But there's a little trick to this as well.
• 02:43 Just double-click any ribbon heading.
• 02:45 Click click to do the same exact thing, okay?
• 02:48 Then I could open it up, use the button, click off of it,
• 02:51 it vanishes, or double-click and it will lock it back in just like that.
• 02:55 Please notice, I do have a ruler above my piece of paper and
• 02:58 off to the left-hand side.
• 03:00 We will have a separate lesson on the View ribbon.
• 03:03 But right now, I just wanna show you, when you click View,
• 03:05 you can put a check mark in Ruler and you will also have rulers on your screen.
• 03:09 I'll go ahead and click back to Home.
• 03:10 On the right-hand side,
• 03:12 I have this scroll bar that will scroll me through my entire document.
• 03:16 But I don't have a horizontal scroll bar,
• 03:18 because my entire sheet of paper fits on the page.
• 03:21 Down here, I have a Zoom control.
• 03:23 Now, when I hit plus, plus, plus, and zoom in; notice, now,
• 03:26 I have a magic little scroll bar appear.
• 03:28 The computer knows when you need a scroll bar.
• 03:30 It will show it or not.
• 03:32 Okay, I can zoom down from there.
• 03:34 These are our Page Layout and Reading Layout.
• 03:36 So, when I click the little tiny booklet, if I had a document, page one would be on
• 03:40 the left, page two on the right, with page advanced buttons right over here.
• 03:44 And then, of course, I have the Web Layout which is not constrained by margins.
• 03:49 I prefer to always stay in my Print Layout.
• 03:51 It shows me a nice little piece of paper.
• 03:54 On the left, we have Page 1 of 1, 0 words currently typed, and
• 03:57 this is a macro button that we will not be using in this lesson.
• 04:01 All right, that's it for this screen overview.
• 04:02 I'll see you in the next lesson, thank you.

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