You will become familiar with the File, Home, Page Layout and View tabs through the rest of this post, as these are most commonly used for editing word documents. To do this, right-click on any part of the ribbon and choose “Customize the Ribbon….” You can customize this ribbon at any time: to add new commands to an existing group, create a new tab altogether with your favorite commands, etc. (Alternately, you can use the F1 keyboard shortcut to bring this up.) You can either browse through existing categories or use the search text box to type out what you want to find.

The question symbol in blue (?) brings up Microsoft Word features Help utility.

This is useful when you want to review your word document in a larger screen space without distractions.

The caret symbol (^) at the top right-hand side corner of the Ribbon can be used to hide/show the command/groups.

In addition, here are some special commands available on the Ribbon: You can click on it to open up additional commands and options related to the group. In some cases, you’ll see a tiny arrow at the bottom of the group. For instance, basic text-formatting commands are put together in one group, paragraph formatting commands in another group, and so on. While you can simply type out your text in the document, commands empower you to format/ insert/ handle this text in multiple ways.Ĭommands are grouped together based on their functionality for easy access. These enable you to use your Microsoft Word templates software to do something to your word document (or post, template, etc.). Commonly used Tabs include Home (the default Tab that opens up when you open a Word document), File (for File operations like Save, New, etc.), Insert, Page Layout, View, etc.

Each tab is an individual screen available on the Ribbon.

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