Navigation Pane

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello.
• 00:05 In this lesson you're going to learn the tools of the trade,
• 00:08 and one of those is the navigation pane.
• 00:11 If you click on your view ribbon up on top,
• 00:14 over here in the show group you'll see the navigation pane box.
• 00:17 Please put a check mark there, and
• 00:19 on the left panel you'll see navigation pane show up.
• 00:22 In this navigation pane there are three sections, headings, pages, and results,
• 00:26 we're going to look at all three of those.
• 00:28 First of all we have a short list of headings.
• 00:30 If you go ahead and click on these, it will move you through your
• 00:33 document based on the style of the heading that's on the screen, now these styles
• 00:38 were applied on the home ribbon right over here in the styles group.
• 00:42 Notice heading one is selected, so
• 00:44 this heading one style corresponds to the navigation pane heading sections.
• 00:50 And again, this allows you to jump through a section at a time.
• 00:52 It's a wonderful way to work your way through a document.
• 00:55 Next one happens to be pages.
• 00:57 This is one of my favorite ones.
• 00:59 So when you click pages, these are called thumbnails, and
• 01:02 they basically show you your page layouts.
• 01:04 If I had 100 pages, I'd have 100 little thumbnails here, and
• 01:07 I could click from one to one, which would help me avoid the control page down,
• 01:11 or page up to get from one page to the next, also avoiding the scroll bar.
• 01:17 So I do like pages.
• 01:18 The most important thing about the navigation pane happens to be the results.
• 01:22 Now results, I can search for any word right here.
• 01:24 So I'm gonna type in the word sample,
• 01:26 cuz I obviously it's been used quite a few times.
• 01:29 When you type a word into a document, now this is just a short document, but
• 01:32 if it was a long one, it would find hundreds of these words, I'm sure of it.
• 01:36 So again, you can click through there, and
• 01:38 you can just find every instance of that word that's in there.
• 01:44 Now on the end of this old box right up here,
• 01:46 there's a drop down arrow, this is where all your advanced options are.
• 01:49 We've have Advanced Find, we can Find and Replace with another word, we can
• 01:54 Go To another page, or graphic or heading, and we have all these other things,
• 01:59 Find Graphics, Tables, Equations, Footnotes, Endnotes, Comments.
• 02:03 Let's go ahead and click on replace because I wanna show you how that works.
• 02:07 I'm gonna click replace.
• 02:09 We get a new box.
• 02:10 It says, find what replace, and we're gonna type the word other.
• 02:14 So we're gonna find sample and replace with other.
• 02:17 We can hit replace One at a time, or Replace All.
• 02:21 Just one fell swoop replace all the word sample with the word other.
• 02:25 And it says it found two replacements.
• 02:27 Do I want to continue from the beginning?
• 02:29 Sure.
• 02:30 And it found a total of six replacements.
• 02:32 Okay. And so now I'm gonna close that box and
• 02:36 I'm gonna come back over here to my Navigation pane, click on Headings, and
• 02:40 there, my short list before that said Sample Heading,
• 02:42 now says Other Heading, and I can click through and look through them all.
• 02:47 When you make use of the Navigation pane, it will help you become more efficient,
• 02:52 become a better user of Microsoft Word, and
• 02:55 just take some of the mystery away of how to work your way through a long document.
• 02:59 It's an incredibly valuable lesson here, and
• 03:02 it's one of the best things I can teach you.

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