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108 Introduction to Microsoft Offi fice
Hands-On Example 4.1.2
Toggle Buttons
Many command buttons in the Microsoft Offi suite of software are toggles. The concept of fice
toggle buttons is important to understand.
1. Launch Microsoft Word, and click
Blank Document
in the startup screen to begin a new
document.
2. Click the
Show/Hide
toggle button so it is on.
3. Add your first and last names to the document. Notice that the insertion point and fi
paragraph symbol move to the right as characters are entered.
4. Select your fi rst name by double-clicking it. Selected text is highlighted. fi
5. Click
Home Font Bold
in the ribbon. The button is toggled on, and the text is bolded.
6. Applying what you have learned, select only your last name.
7. Click
Home Font Italic
in the ribbon. The button is toggled on, and the text is
italicized.
8. Select both names by clicking at the beginning of your fi rst name, holding down the fi
left mouse button, and dragging to the end of your last name. Then release the left
mouse button. Both names should now be highlighted.
9. Click
Home Font Underline
in the ribbon. The button is toggled on, and the text is
underlined. Note: the underline may not be visible if Word thinks your names are mis-
spelled words and places a red squiggly line under them to indicate this.
10. Applying what you have learned, select only your last name.
11. Click
Home Font Italic
in the ribbon. The button is toggled off, and your last name is
no longer italicized, but it remains underlined.
12. Close Word by clicking the
Close
button (X) in the upper-right corner of the window.
When asked to save the fi le, click the fi
No
button.
Show/
Hide
Bold
Italic
Underline
Italic
Displaying Multiple Windows
Each application in the Microsoft Offi suite is opened in its own fice
window. Additionally, by default, each document that is open in a
Microsoft Offi application appears in its own window. The current fice
window, which is called the active window, is where any command that
is entered will be applied.
When a window fi lls the entire screen, it is fi maximized. Other
applications may be running in other windows, but those windows will
not be visible except as buttons on the taskbar. To see more than one
window, a maximized window must be resized smaller. A window that
is visible, but does not fi ll the entire screen, is fi windowed. This is done
by clicking the resizing button in the upper-right corner of the window.
It is to the left of the
Close
button (X), and the button icon looks like two
windows, one behind the other, as shown in Figure 4-4. Once the button
is clicked, the window is resized smaller. The button also changes to the
maximize button.
FYI FYI
A window that is in the
windowed state may
be referred to as restored
down.