Ribbon - View

Quick reference

• 00:04 Okay, let's revisit the View ribbon.
• 00:06 Now throughout this course, if you've have taken it from the beginning,
• 00:10 you've seen each one of these items come up in different lessons.
• 00:14 But now let's just review all of them so you know how important the View ribbon is.
• 00:19 All right, first of all I'm going to turn on my Page Navigation button,
• 00:22 because a lot of what I'm about to show you will affect the page navigation.
• 00:26 All right, so I'm on the View ribbon and I'm viewing Normal.
• 00:29 Now, this is my normal publication, as compared to the Master Page.
• 00:33 There was an entire lesson about the Master Page.
• 00:36 When I activate Master Page, I get an entirely new ribbon and
• 00:39 the background turns yellow and my entire publication disappeared.
• 00:43 Well, now I'm just looking at the background of that publication.
• 00:47 In order to get out of the Master Page, you've got to click Close Master Page.
• 00:51 But go back and revisit that lesson and you'll learn a lot about headers and
• 00:55 footers and page numbers in your publication.
• 00:57 Back to the View ribbon.
• 00:59 Now, I'm going to view my document as single page.
• 01:03 So click this and notice what happened on our page navigation over here.
• 01:07 Every one of them is single page.
• 01:09 And even within my document itself, as I scroll down,
• 01:11 you can see there's only one page.
• 01:13 Well, the two page spread, look what happens.
• 01:15 When I click this, now it spreads them wide open side by side.
• 01:19 These are called mirrored, mirrored pages or facing pages.
• 01:23 And sometimes it's good to know which ones are going to print out side by side.
• 01:27 So that's why the two page spread is handy.
• 01:30 All right, I'm going to turn this back to single page just for a moment.
• 01:32 Now, boundaries, guides, fields, my goodness,
• 01:35 you can really clutter up your document, all right.
• 01:38 So let me click over here.
• 01:39 The boundaries aren't too bad, I guess the one I chose isn't the full grid.
• 01:43 But generally I don't work with my guides and
• 01:46 my fields showing, I only use those when I'm working with text.
• 01:50 The boundaries, those put lines around the text boxes.
• 01:53 So notice when I turn off the boundaries, it just cleans it up a little more.
• 01:57 It depends on what you're doing at that moment.
• 01:59 Do you need to see the guides and the boundaries?
• 02:01 Turn them on.
• 02:02 If you don't, turn them off.
• 02:03 All right, now the rulers.
• 02:04 Look at this.
• 02:05 The rulers off, the rulers on.
• 02:06 Off, on.
• 02:08 I'm attached to my rulers.
• 02:09 I like them on.
• 02:10 But another thing you can do with the rulers is,
• 02:13 notice this empty square right up there.
• 02:15 It says drag to move the ruler.
• 02:17 Look at this, you can actually move them closer to what you need to measure for
• 02:21 placement.
• 02:22 You're not stuck with them them up at the top in the left.
• 02:24 That's why I like them on at all times, so I don't have to go fetch them when I need
• 02:28 them, just have them on the screen at all times.
• 02:31 Now the page navigation, I've been talking about that throughout the course.
• 02:34 I like my page navigation, I generally work with it on.
• 02:37 Sometimes I'll turn it off if I need room to work with a graphic or an object,
• 02:42 but generally I've got that on.
• 02:44 All right, and then we've got scratch area.
• 02:45 Now scratch here is on, so let me zoom down so you can see this.
• 02:48 Now I'm going to go ahead and
• 02:49 take this picture and lay it off to the right into the scratch area.
• 02:53 Now the scratch area is the dark background behind your document.
• 02:57 You can lay pictures out there and then when you're ready to use them,
• 03:00 move them all in.
• 03:00 Well look what happens when I turn the scratch area off, click,
• 03:04 my picture disappeared.
• 03:06 So it's like it fell into this abyss, it's gone.
• 03:09 So generally, I've always got my scratch area on,
• 03:12 I really don't see a reason why to turn the thing off.
• 03:15 So I'm just going to move that back over in place, there we go.
• 03:18 The Graphics Manager, there was an entire lesson about the Graphics Manager.
• 03:21 You must go watch that entire course video.
• 03:24 But basically telling me about all the pictures.
• 03:27 Well, I don't know which picture is named which.
• 03:29 So I use the Show thumbnail all the time, and now I can view which one.
• 03:34 You can also sort these differently.
• 03:35 You don't have to sort by file name, you can sort by page number.
• 03:39 So now I know which ones are on the first page or the second page or therefore.
• 03:43 All right, the next one is our Zoom Control.
• 03:45 Do I want to see my document at 100%?
• 03:47 Hm, it's kind of big.
• 03:49 What about the whole page?
• 03:50 Yep, I like that.
• 03:51 Notice also down on the very right hand corner, let me close this.
• 03:54 Bottom right hand corner, this little button is also show page.
• 03:58 So in case you're not on your View ribbon for your whole page,
• 04:01 you can actually click this little button right down here which is whole page.
• 04:04 Now I have Page Width.
• 04:05 Or what if I want to zoom into a selected object?
• 04:09 So I'm going to click on this picture, Zoom to Selected Object, click, and
• 04:13 it zooms in there.
• 04:14 Kind of great.
• 04:15 And then of course you can reset.
• 04:16 I could also type whatever I want in here, like 400% and tab,
• 04:21 and there we go, 400% zoom.
• 04:23 And then quickly switch back to, click, Whole Page.
• 04:26 There you go.
• 04:26 All right, the arrange all cascading windows means if I've got multiple
• 04:30 publications open, these will arrange and stack and cascade,
• 04:33 which will kind of ruin my video, so I'm not going to do that.
• 04:36 But please be aware, the View ribbon has a lot of power behind it,
• 04:41 it's good to know what it all is.

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