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Using the Ribbon

FIGURE 1.21 Undocking the Ribbon

If you don’t want the Ribbon at all, you can turn it off by right-clicking to the

right of the Ribbon tabs and choosing Close. To turn it on, enter

RIBBON↵. You’ll

use the Ribbon throughout this book, so be sure to keep it on for now.

FIGURE 1.22 The Ribbon undocked from the top of the drawing area

Using the Ribbon Tools

Each panel contains tools from a related family of functions. For example, all

the common tools for editing objects in the drawing area are consolidated in the

Modify panel. When more tools are available than will ﬁt on the panel, an arrow

is displayed on the panel’s title bar. Clicking the title bar expands the panel and

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