Navigation Pane

Quick reference

• 00:04 All right, let's talk about the Navigation pane,
• 00:07 one of the most useful tools in all of Microsoft that is often ignored.
• 00:11 Because people just don't realize how valuable it is.
• 00:13 Now I click on the View ribbon, right over here, of course, it's a Navigation pane.
• 00:17 At this level, you should have that on, and be using it all the time.
• 00:21 It delivers three different options for you.
• 00:23 It delivers a list of our headings and
• 00:25 I can literally click through each one of these and jump to the next heading.
• 00:28 Imagine this on a 100-page document, and you can just skip, skip,
• 00:32 skip around to the next heading.
• 00:34 Now notice this little button up here that takes us to the top,
• 00:37 click, jumps to the beginning.
• 00:39 Now the pages, these are the thumbnails,
• 00:41 little thumbnails of every individual page.
• 00:43 I only have two pages on this document, but
• 00:46 again, I can click to which one I want and just, it jumps me right there.
• 00:50 I love this 'cause it also shows me kind of a mini-layout of that page.
• 00:53 So I can Just have a nice zoomed out view to look at all the little pictures,
• 00:57 if there's any on there.
• 00:58 And of course, we have the results.
• 01:00 Now the results is simply the Find and
• 01:02 Replace feature that was in the other second section of this course.
• 01:06 I did a lot about the Find and Replace.
• 01:08 There is something to know about this.
• 01:10 You can find words, replace words, you can find formats, replace formats.
• 01:13 But look at this, you can actually find graphs, tables, footnotes, end notes,
• 01:18 you can find comments.
• 01:20 Don't ignore that little drop-down arrow when you're on the Navigation
• 01:23 pane results.
• 01:24 Hit that drop-down arrow and read through this and click around and explore those.
• 01:29 Because any time you're looking for something really detailed and
• 01:32 you can't find it, it's probably on that drop-down arrow.
• 01:35 Just need to know that they have combined the headings view, the page thumbnails,
• 01:39 and the results on the same Navigation pane.
• 01:41 Now let's talk about the Navigation pane itself.
• 01:44 This can be moved, I'm gonna put it back to my pages, this can be resized.
• 01:48 Now it's a little test of dexterity.
• 01:50 If you float your mouse on that edge of the Navigation pane,
• 01:52 you'll see a resize arrow.
• 01:54 And I can click and drag that wider or I can click and drag that narrower, right?
• 01:59 I can't always see all of my pages so I have an option.
• 02:03 I can double-click to collapse my ribbons, that got me about an inch of room.
• 02:07 Or I can literally, I'll go head and open up those ribbons again to show you this.
• 02:11 I can literally float my mouse on the word Navigation, and
• 02:14 I'm gonna basically rip that Navigation pane off the side of this screen here.
• 02:18 I'm gonna click and drag, don't give up, it doesn't glide,
• 02:21 until you get outside of it.
• 02:23 Now, I just ripped that Navigation pane off.
• 02:26 And I'm gonna position it way up here on the top, and I'm going to drag it down.
• 02:31 You see, I'm the boss of the Navigation pane.
• 02:34 And I can tell it how big it's going to be and where it's going to land, all right?
• 02:38 So what if I have a small laptop I'm working on and
• 02:42 I use my Navigation pane a lot?
• 02:43 Just drag that thing off of there and then resize it the way you want it.
• 02:46 So that's called a floating Navigation pane, a floating box, and
• 02:50 they're either floating or docked.
• 02:52 Now, it's like the water park theme, okay?
• 02:53 So we click and where I can slowly drag it back, slowly, slowly,
• 02:58 slowly, and it locks itself in.
• 03:00 Now I'm gonna rip that thing out of there again because, maybe,
• 03:02 I don't want my Navigation pane on the left.
• 03:04 Well, then, put it over on the right.
• 03:06 Slowly, slowly, slowly, and it'll dock itself right on the right-hand side.
• 03:12 Who's the boss of Microsoft Word?
• 03:14 You are, put that Navigation pane where you need it, at the time you need it,
• 03:19 resize it if you need it, or dock it in place when you want to all right?
• 03:25 That's it, let's have that Navigation pane open for
• 03:27 the rest of these lessons, thanks.

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