In this lecture, we're going to focus on the OneNote screen. That includes the main tabs and ribbons, the contextual tabs, and then also the key tips. Let's begin by reviewing the many components that make up the OneNote screen. I'm going to start at the top left and work my way all the way down to the bottom right of the screen, going over all the features and functions that are available. So let's start at the very top, we've got our Quick Access Toolbar. Just like any other office program, you have access to a quick access toolbar, where you can add functions and features that you use on a regular basis.

And we'll go over this in detail in a later module. Below the Quick Access toolbar, we have our tabs and ribbons. commands are organized under the various tabs called ribbons. So instead of organizing the options from drop down menus to organize horizontally on ribbons, making it easier to access and view the information. If we move over to the right we've got our title bar and this gives us the name of the page we're on. We're currently on the screen overview page.

And so that's the page it's showing us at the top. If we move further over to the right, we have our ribbon display options. If we click on it, it's going to give us the three options that are available to us. The first is the auto hide ribbon, where it will hide the ribbon. And so all you see are the three buttons at the top, we come over to the right and click we can bring it back, or we can click over here to bring it down. Our second option is to show tabs.

This will show us the tabs that are available but not the ribbons. So it gives us a little bit more screen but it also reminds us of what tabs we have available for us. Then if we wanted to go to the ribbon, we would click on a tab and it would bring it down. Come back over. Our last option shows us the tabs and the ribbons to come over to the right even further. We've got our minimize or maximize or restore down Enter Close buttons.

Let's go below that a little bit. We've got a little arrow here. This allows us to collapse our ribbon if we want to see a little bit more space, bring it back up. Now if we look at our ribbon, we've got what are called groups. That's where they take the information or the commands that are available within a ribbon and put them into groups of like commands. For instance, on our home tab, we've got a basic text group.

And within here we have all the commands for basic text such as bolding, italicizing, underlining, setting our font, and so forth. Now, let's come over to the left, and our column over here is called notebooks. And this is going to list each of the notebooks that we've set up. Within our middle column, we have our section setup. And then we have our pages. We come all the way over to the right, we can navigate between the various pages, and the middle column will show us the information that's available within that page.

On that note, above our pages, we have our search box. And this is where we could search for information within our page, an entire notebook and so forth. Now let's go up and focus on the tabs and ribbons themselves. If we click on the File tab, it's going to take us to the backstage. It's the only tab that does not give you a ribbon instead, like I said, it takes you to backstage and gives you the commands that are available there. The reason for this is that the five commands have to do with the whole notebook instead of individual pieces.

So what you're doing is you're opening a notebook, you're printing, you're exploiting information, you're sending it, you're setting up your account, you're setting your options, and so forth. Whereas when you're in the tabs and ribbons, you're doing things individually within that notebook. clicking the arrow will take us back. The Home tab is our default tab. Whenever you open up OneNote This is the tab you're going to be accessing immediately. And from here we've got our various groups, our clipboard where we can do our cutting Enter pasting and use our Format Painter.

Then we've got the basic text group, which we already discussed, we can set our spouse within our notes, and we can tab our notes, send emails and set up meeting details. We'll click over one, we have our Insert tab. From the insert ribbon, we can insert spaces, tables, files, images, media set up our links, we could do recordings of audio and video, and we could do time stamping and so forth. Our draw tab and ribbon gives us the tools to draw within our notebook. We can also do handwritten notes, we can draw shapes and we can do into math. Our history tab and ribbon is going to show us information about our notes.

If we're sharing our notes, we can see information about recent edits. We can go through and look for unread information, go back and look at information that we have recycled or deleted if we needed pull it back as well. Our review tab gives us the options just like this word for reviewing things during our spellcheck, our research the source, setting our language. And also within here, we can do link notes. And our final tab is our view tab. And this is where just like in Word or Excel, we can set our view.

From here we have our normal view, our full page view, or dr desktop view, we can also do some Page Setup by changing the color of our pages, adding rules to our paper, hiding our title page and setting the paper size. We can zoom in and out from here. And we can also open up multiple windows if we wanted to work on multiple places at one time. And from within our notes, we have what's called the mini toolbar. From here we can do formatting, we can set up our flags to do list, format paint and delete information, instead of having to go up to the tabs or ribbons to do it. That's a basic overview of our screen and our tabs and ribbons will stop here and then we'll pick up with the contextual tabs and the key tips.

In the next part of this lecture