Navigating the Page

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello.
• 00:05 In this lesson, I want to show you how to control where you type on the screen.
• 00:08 The first thing you need to be aware of is your flashing insertion point.
• 00:13 So I have one word on the screen, and
• 00:14 right beside it my flashing insertion point just kind of hanging out there.
• 00:18 That is your lifeline.
• 00:20 Wherever that insertion point is where you're going to start typing.
• 00:23 So I've just typed a couple words, and
• 00:25 now I wanna move my insertion point down a couple lines.
• 00:28 Well, there's two ways to do this.
• 00:30 You could hit Enter on your keyboard a couple times, and
• 00:33 that forces your insertion point down, and
• 00:35 then you could type a sentence right there, and it throws in the sentence.
• 00:39 But there's another way to do it as well.
• 00:41 If you don't wanna hit Enter to move down, you could actually just move your I beam,
• 00:44 so you notice my arrow is in the left margin, but
• 00:48 when I come to a typing area my, my arrow turns into what's called an I beam,
• 00:52 because it looks like a capital letter I in the English language.
• 00:55 That's why they call it an I beam.
• 00:57 So I could actually just double click, click, click, and force my insertion point
• 01:01 to land right at that spot, and I could type a sentence there.
• 01:05 Now if I wanna type in the middle of the page,
• 01:07 I simply move my I beam over to the middle, and I double click, click click.
• 01:11 There it is in the center, and now I can type a sentence there.
• 01:15 Maybe I want to type on the right hand side, click click, and
• 01:19 go ahead and type the sentence there.
• 01:21 And so it's very easy, wherever you want to type, just double click and
• 01:26 type a sentence.
• 01:27 Now there is another way to do this as well, let me scroll down,
• 01:30 I'm gonna double click right here to place my insertion point.
• 01:33 I can hit my Tab key, and that will move my insertion point over by
• 01:37 a half inch spot, and then I can just enter a sentence anywhere I want.
• 01:41 When I hit my Enter key, it moves my insertion point down.
• 01:44 Now if I've tabbed over a few spaces and I decide no, no, no,
• 01:48 I wanna come back about half an inch, I hit my Backspace key and
• 01:52 that will move me back a half inch at a spot, at a time, or
• 01:55 I could just double click, wherever I want it to land, and type another sentence.
• 02:01 So that's how easy it is just to begin typing.
• 02:04 You can use your keyboard to move your insertion point around, or
• 02:07 you can use your mouse to move your insertion point around.
• 02:09 Now another thing that's happening is I want to draw your attention
• 02:12 up to the ribbon.
• 02:13 On the paragraph group where I've clicked right now,
• 02:16 you can see my insertion point below.
• 02:18 It's telling me that I am left aligned, cuz the left align button is lit up.
• 02:24 When I click on the one I dropped into the center of the page, look at that.
• 02:27 The paragraph is lit up on the center, it's center alignment.
• 02:32 And what do you think's gonna happen to this button right here
• 02:35 when I click on the one on the right?
• 02:37 Sure enough, it moved over cuz it's right alignment.
• 02:39 Now I didn't tell it to do that.
• 02:41 The program is programmed to do that.
• 02:43 So it's pretty interesting.
• 02:44 So I can actually click on this sentence now, and
• 02:47 I can force it to go to the center, or I can force it to go to the left,
• 02:51 simply by adjusting these three buttons on a paragraph format.
• 02:56 I can double click, I can Tab, I can Enter.
• 02:59 There's many ways to move around.
• 03:00 What will happen is you'll figure out the best way that works for you, and
• 03:04 the better you get at Microsoft Word, the faster you become
• 03:07 at entering your text because you won't be intimidated on how to do it.
• 03:11 All right, thank you, and I'll see you in the next video.

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