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Chapter 1 • Getting to Know AutoCAD
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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
(see the top of Figure 1.19 shown earlier).
2. Move your cursor over the Modify panel, and pause the cursor over
the Bring To Front tool button.
This exposes the button’s tooltip, as shown at the top of Figure 1.23.
Displaying the name of the tool, the tooltip also provides a brief
description of its function, the command-line equivalent of clicking
the tool, and instructions to press the F1 key to open the AutoCAD
Help file to the current tool’s Help page.
FIGURE 1.23 The tooltip for the Bring To Front command (top) and the
extended tooltip (bottom)
3. After a few seconds of hovering over the Bring To Front button, the
tooltip expands to display the extended tooltip (see the bottom of
Figure 1.23) with a more complete description.
4. 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 1.24, instead of an extended tooltip. Cue cards show
the step-by-step implementation of the tool.
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