USING THE MS WORD RIBBON

TERMS AND DEFINITIONS:

RIBBON: the ribbon takes the place of menus that were used in earlier versions of Microsoft Word

KEYS YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW:

Windows Keys: TAB, ARROWS

JAWS Keys: no new jaws keys

EXPLANATION:

When you press the alt key you access the ribbon toolbar. To navigate to a different ribbon you use left and right arrows. To navigate the ribbon you are on use the tab and shift tab keys. To leave the ribbon press the escape key at any time. Normally there are 8 different ribbons in the ribbon toolbar. The names of the different ribbons are referred to as tabs. When you first press the alt key, Jaws will say home tab because of its shape, but it is the home ribbon. For example: press alt to go to the home tab, to access the items in the home ribbon press tab and keep pressing tab to hear all the items in the ribbon. Eventually you will come out of the ribbon and hear home tab again. Leave the ribbon toolbar by pressing the escape key. Press alt again to go to the ribbon toolbar and this time press the right arrow key. Keep pressing the right arrow key and eventually you will get back to the home tab again. If you are inside a ribbon and want to switch to a different ribbon you need to press escape first and then go back to the ribbon toolbar with alt. There are other items in the Office button submenu grid. The fastest way to access that is to use alt f. When accessing the ribbons Jaws also says the hotkeys for all the items and the different ribbons. Remember hotkeys give you direct access to something, like control p for printing. For example when on the home tab Jaws will say alt followed by h. The insert tab would be alt followed by n. All items are labeled with like this but it would be hard to memorize all of them for direct access. The old commands like control p and control e and others still work in Word 2007.

ACTIVITIES:

1) locate the insert ribbon

2) locate the mailings ribbon

3) locate the header item in the insert ribbon

4) locate the envelopes item in the mailings ribbon

5) locate the save as item in the Office Button

6) locate the word 97-2003 item by going to the Office Button then Save As