Office 2021 for Macs For Dummies. Bob LeVitus

Чтение книги онлайн.

      FIGURE 3-3: Notice the Chart Design and Format tabs on the ribbon have been replaced with the Shape Format tab.

      Click the tab that’s already selected on the ribbon to hide it and leave only its tabs showing. You can also choose View ⇒ Ribbon on the menu at the top of the screen to toggle between hiding and showing ribbon tabs.

      That’s really all you need to know to get started with ribbons. Trust us, there’s much more to come throughout the rest of the book.

      Panes are anything but a pain

      In addition to toolbars, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have numerous panes, which are basically like windows within the main window of your document, workbook, or slide. In PowerPoint, for example, some of these panes include Comments, Format Shape, Design Ideas, Format Picture, and Stock Images.

      Each pane opens on the right side of the current window; you can have multiple panes open at once, with each one represented by a tab that you can select to navigate between them. Most panes have a number of panels, often nested within subtabs, that you can hide or disclose by clicking the little arrow to the left of their names. To close a pane, click the x in its upper-right corner (or on the pane’s tab if multiple panes are open).

In Figure 3-4, the Format Picture pane (in PowerPoint) is displaying its tabs — Fill & Line, Effects, Size & Properties, and Picture, each represented with an icon — with the Picture tab selected. The Picture Color panel is open, or disclosed; note that the gray arrow to the left of its name points downward. The three other panels — Picture Corrections, Picture Transparency, and Crop — are closed, so their disclosure arrows point to the right rather than down.

      FIGURE 3-4: The Format Picture pane has multiple tabs you can use to work with your selected image.

      We discuss various panes, subtabs, and panels throughout the rest of this tome, but because describing every item on every menu, pane, or ribbon tab is beyond the purview of this book, we urge you to take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the items on each one in all the Office apps.

Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, Ribbon Tabs, and Keyboard Shortcuts

      Customizing elements in the Office apps is something of a pastime for the aficionados we know; we’ll admit, it can be fun and even empowering to make things appear and work the way you want (or need) them to. You can add, delete, and rearrange many items to your liking. You can even create ribbon tabs from scratch and add or change the keyboard shortcuts for most commands.

      Customize the Quick Access toolbar

      The Quick Access toolbar is a great place for tools you routinely need fast access to in any document, workbook, or slide, and it can be customized to suit your tastes.

      

Once you customize the tools in the Quick Access toolbar for one document, workbook, or slide, they’re the same in every new window in that app going forward.

      Follow these steps to customize the Quick Access toolbar in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (Outlook doesn’t apply here, we're afraid):

      1 Choose App Name ⇒ Preferences to open the Preferences dialog.

      2 Click the Ribbon & Toolbar button.

      3 Near the top of the Ribbon & Toolbar dialog, select the Quick Access Toolbar tab.

      4 Select an option in the Choose Commands From pop-up menu, scroll through the list of available commands, and then click to select the one you want.

      5 Click > in the middle of the dialog, shown in Figure СКАЧАТЬ