The Microsoft Word Menu
Bar has been "upgraded" to a Ribbon.
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MAC Users: You still have a Menu
Bar, if you can’t find what you are looking for on the Ribbon try looking in
the Menus. |
At the top, you have Menu tabs. Each tab
has a Ribbon.
You will see that the commands are
grouped on the Ribbon to make it easier for you to find what you are
looking for.
Home Tab/Ribbon (Part 1)
UNDO GROUP
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The First group is "Undo." In this
group, you can undo the last few things you did in the document and redo them
if you undo too many. To undo something click on the arrow pointing left. To redo something click on the arrow pointing right. There is supposed to be a limited number of undo commands,
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CLIPBOARD GROUP
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The Second group is the Clipboard. The Clipboard is magic. Anytime you copy or cut something it goes onto the Clipboard, and you don’t see anything happen, then when you want to paste it, you just click on paste and it will put what you cut or copied wherever your cursor is.
 Cut removes what item you cut from the place where you had
it. Copy leaves the item where it is and allows you to
paste the same thing somewhere else in the document. You can have up to 24 items on the
Clipboard AND get this That Clipboard is the same one for
PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook. That means you can copy
something in, say, Excel and then paste it into Word, etc. You will also find the Format
Painter in the Clipboard group, this is a magic paintbrush that will copy the
formatting you have put on some text and by brushing it over text in another
place in your document, you will get the same formatting. You will also find the Special
Paste options if you want to do something specific with the item you are
pasting. See the little arrow under the word Paste, that indicates there is something more to see if you click on it.
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NOTE: Most group have a “more options” button in the lower right-hand corner of the group. If you click on that you will get new options related to that group. As an example the more options button in the Clipboard group will open the clipboard window and show you everything you have put on the clipboard, you can then pick and choose what you want to paste. 
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The Font Group
