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exposes the additional tools. Follow these steps to learn how the Ribbon tools
work and how they display information.
1. Click the Home tab on the Ribbon to expose the Home tab’s panels.
2. Move the cursor over the Modify panel. The panel and panel title bar
change from light gray to white to indicate that that panel has the
program’s focus.
3. Pause the cursor over the Explode button to expose the button’s
tooltip as shown at the top of Figure 1.12. This tooltip displays the
name of the tool, a brief description of its function, the command-
line equivalent of clicking the tool, and instructions to click the F1
key to open the AutoCAD Help file to the current tool’s Help page.
FIGURE 1.12: The tooltip for the Explode command (top) and the
extended tooltip (bottom)
4. After a few seconds of hovering over the Explode button, the tooltip
expands to display the extended tooltip (see the bottom of Figure 1.12)
with a more complete description.
5. Pause the cursor over the Copy button in the Modify panel. This time,
after a few seconds, the tooltip is replaced with a cue card, as shown
in Figure 1.13, instead of an extended tooltip. Cue cards show the
step-by-step implementation of the tool.
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