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Part I: Getting Started with Office
...or click the arrow to open
a menu of other settings
A command button
(opens dialog box)
Click the button face
to apply the most recent setting
An on/off toggle
A button set Click here to open
the Paragraph dialog box
Figure 1-3
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On/off toggles: When the button is selected (it turns
orange), the feature is on. Each time you click the
button, it switches between on and off.
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Command buttons: When you click the button, the
command executes. If you click a command button
again, the command repeats.
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Connected button sets: In connected sets of but-
tons, selecting a button deselects (cancels) the previ-
ous selection in the set.
For example, Figure 1-3 has four buttons in the bot-
tom row for paragraph alignment. The leftmost one
is selected; if you click one of the others, it’s auto-
matically canceled.
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Menu buttons: Buttons with arrows on them open
menus or color palettes.
You can hover the mouse pointer over a button to see a pop-up box,
called a ScreenTip, that tells the button’s name and/or purpose.
With some buttons that contain arrows, you can click anywhere on the
button face — directly on the arrow or not — to open the menu or
palette (an array of colored squares from which you can choose a
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