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In Expression Web, the toolbar, the Task Panes, the title heading within a Task Pane, the tag selector,
the tabbed file chooser, and rulers all have selectable options within a context menu. However, the
most dynamic context menu that you’ll find yourself using more often than not is the context menu
that appears within the development area.
As you progress through the book, the discussions will certainly cover options that are available within
the many context menus. For now, let’s do a simple cut-and-paste example using the development area’s
context menu.
You can follow along simply by first typing some text within the development area. I’ll type Hello World.
Highlight the text by selecting one end of it and dragging over to the other end. Now, right-click onto
the selected text and choose Cut from the context menu. The text disappears. Finally, right-click onto the
development area and choose Paste. The text reappears.
Summary
As you’ve learned in this chapter, Expression Web includes a myriad of toolbars and Task Panes, and a
feature-rich and flexible Document window within its framework. While the discussion in this chapter
has briefly highlighted the features offered by these toolbars, Task Panes, and the Document window,
the overall goal of this chapter wasn’t to provide a high-level understanding, but rather a gentle intro-
duction and a chance of simple familiarization with some of the components that you will ultimately
end up using while building your Web pages.
As the chapters progress, you’ll undoubtedly be using the development area, the Task Panes, the tool-
bars, the menu bar, and even the myriad of context menus quite often. For now, at the very least, you
understand the terminology, and more important, you’ll be able to identify each component within the
Expression Web framework by name.
Now that you’ve had a formal introduction to Expression Web, let’s move forward with actually build-
ing a Web page. This is exactly what you’ll get to do in Chapter 2. The Development window, the Task
Panes, the menus, and more will begin to become clear as you begin to use them next.
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