Let's finish up the screen overview by going over the contextual tabs and the key tips. In contrast to your core tabs, which contain various common commands that are relevant regardless of your workspace content. Contextual tabs typically contain one or more commands that are relevant to a selected or highlighted object only. So for instance, let's go ahead and add a table, we'll go to our Insert Tab table. Once we add the table, you'll notice we get our table tools and the layout contextual tab. This tab only appears when you've inserted or working on a table in your cursors within the table.

It'll give you all the commands available to do anything with your table as far as selecting the columns rows, hiding borders, setting up shading, aligning your information, and inserting columns to the left or right and so forth. You'll notice once I click outside the two The contextual tab goes away. Another contextual tab that we have available is our recording contextual tab. So if we go to the Insert, and click record audio, you'll notice I get the audio and video tools and the recording contextual tab, and you'll see that it's recording. This contextual tab will appear when we're doing audio or video recordings, and gives us the ability to do our pause or stop, rewind or information, set our audio and video options. Now, if I were to delete the recording, the contextual tab goes away.

Another contextual tab we have is far equations. So let's go back to insert. And let's go ahead and insert an equation. Once I insert the equation or are working within the equation area, I get the equation tools and our design contextual tab. And this gives me the tools to ink my equation, add symbols, set up my structure and so forth. And again, these textual tabs and that means they only become available when you're working with a specific object that brings them up.

The tables contextual tab, for instance comes up only when you're working within a table. The recording contextual tab only comes up when you're working with recordings, just as the design contextual tab only comes up when you're working within your equation. Let's go ahead and move on to the key tips are the access keys. The access keys are shortcut keys that give you access to the ribbon commands without having to use your mouse. So if you're someone who prefers to use the keyboard instead of your mouse to access commands, the access keys are the key tips are great for you. To activate, all you need to do is press the Alt key.

Once you do that, you'll notice that the Quick Access Toolbar gets key tips along with the tabs. The Quick Access toolbar will always have numbers for its access keys and the tabs will always have letters. Once activated. All you need to do is press the letter For the tab you want to access. So if I want to go into review, I would press R. Once I do that, it's going to take me in and give me the key tips that are available for commands within that tab. So if I wanted to go to research, I would hit r again, and it's going to bring up the research sidebar for me.

Press the Alt key again, brings up the key tips for the tasks. If I want to go to Insert, I press n, I'll get the key tips that are available for the commands within the Insert tab. I want to insert a picture I press P and it'll take me out so I can pick a picture dancer, again all activates if you don't want to use the key tips altogether will deactivate or pressing the Escape key will back you out of where you are. So the key tips are an excellent feature for those people who prefer to use the keyboard over the mouse. In the next lecture, we'll focus on using the Quick Access Toolbar.