HOME TAB

The Home Tab is used to perform many of the common tasks such as changing fonts, cutting
and pasting text and images into documents, changing paragraph formats, applying styles, and
editing text. The groups and buttons for this ribbon are described in the table below.

Groups/Buttons Description
Clipboard Group
Paste This button is used to insert items that have been stored on the
clipboard into a document.
Cut To remove text or other items from a document and store it on the
clipboard, click this button.
Copy Click this button to make a copy of selected text or another item in
a document and store it on the clipboard.
Format Painter To make a copy of selected text and then apply the formatting to
other text in a document, click this button. A single click will apply
the formatting to other selected text one time. To apply the
formatting to other selected text several times, click the format
painter button twice. When all the formatting has been applied,
click the button again to deactivate the format painter.
Clipboard Launcher This button is located in the lower right corner of the Clipboard
group. It is used to open the Clipboard Task Pane. This task pane
will display when items that are added to the clipboard are
displayed. This allows more than one item to be added to the
clipboard before the items are pasted into the document.
Font Group
Font Type To select the type of font for a whole document or for selected text
within the document, click this button.
Font Size This button is used to change the size of the font for the whole
document or for selected text within the document.
Increase Font Size Click this button to increase the size of the font for selected text.
Each time the button is clicked, the font size will increase by one or
two point sizes.
Decrease Font Size To decrease the size of selected text, click this button. The size of
the font will decrease by one or two point sizes each time the
button is clicked.
Change Case To change the selected text to UPPERCASE, lowercase, or to apply
other capitalization, click this button.
Clear All Formatting To clear all the formatting that has been applied to selected text,
click this button.

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Groups/Buttons Description
Bold Click this button to apply bold formatting to selected text in a
document.
Italics This button is used to italicize selected text in a document.
Underline To underline selected text in a document, click this button.
Strikethrough This button is used to draw a line through selected text in a
document.
Subscript To create small letters below the text baseline, click this button.
Superscript Click this button to create small letters above the line of text.
Text Effects and This button is used to apply visual effects, such as shadow,
Typography glow, or reflection to selected text in a document.
Text Highlight Color To highlight the selected text, click this button. This will make the
text look like it has been marked with a highlighter pen. To select
from different colors, click the list arrow.
Font Color This button is used to change the color of the font for the selected
text.
Font Box Launcher This button is located in the lower right corner of the Font group.
It is used to launch the Font dialog box. This dialog box can be
used to make additional changes to the Font.
Paragraph Group
Bullets To create a bulleted list within a document, click this button. Click
the list arrow to display a gallery of bullet styles.
Numbering This button is used to create a numbered list within a document.
When the list arrow is clicked, a gallery of number styles will
display.
Multilevel List Click this button to create an outline. The list arrow is used to
display a gallery of outline styles. There is also an option to create
new outline styles for a document.
Decrease Indent When an indent has been applied to text in a document, this
button is used to decrease the indent. Each time the button is
clicked, the indent will decrease one level.
Increase Indent Click this button to increase the indent for a paragraph, numbered
list, bulleted list, or a multilevel list. Each time the button is
clicked, the indent will increase one level.
Sort To sort a paragraph of text, a table, or a list, click this button. The
sort dialog box will display. This dialog box is used to specify the
criteria for the sort.
Show/Hide This button is used to show the formatting, such as paragraph
marks and tabs that have been applied to text in a document.
Align Left Click this button to align all the text in a document or paragraph at
the left margin. The text at the left margin will be even. The text in
the right margin will be uneven. This is the default alignment for
all documents created in Word.

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Groups/Buttons Description
Center To center a paragraph between the right and left margin of a
document, click this button.
Align Right This button is used to align text in a document at the right margin.
The text at the right margin will be even. The text on the left side
will be uneven.
Justify When this button is clicked, the text in a document will be aligned
evenly at both the left and right margin. Additional spacing will be
inserted between words as necessary.
Line and Paragraph To change the amount of spacing between lines of text or between
Spacing paragraphs in a document, select this option. To apply the same
spacing to a whole document, use the Paragraph Spacing options
on the Design tab.
Shading This button is used to color the background for the selected text in
a document.
Borders To create a border around selected text or a paragraph, click this
button. The arrow beside the button will display a gallery of
colors. Clicking the button will apply the border that is displayed
on the button to the selected text.
Paragraph Box This button is located in the lower right corner of the Paragraph
Launcher Group. It is used to open the Paragraph Dialog Box where
additional Paragraph formatting options are located.
Styles Group
Styles Gallery The styles gallery is used to apply different formatting to
paragraphs in a document. Several different styles are displayed.
To make changes to the Style, right-click on the Style Button and
select modify.
Styles Launcher This button is located in the lower right corner of the Styles group.
It is used to display additional styles for use in documents.
Editing Group
Find To locate a particular word or phrase within a document, click this
button. The Navigation Task Pane will display to the left of the
document. Within this pane, the word or phrase that is to be found
can be specified. A list of the possible matches will appear below
the Search box.
Replace This feature is used to locate text within a document and replace it
with other text. When Replace is clicked, the Find and Replace
dialog box will display with the Replace tab active. This is where
the word(s) to be found and replaced are specified.
Select Click this button to select text or objects within a document. The
options are to select all the document, select objects within the
document, or to select text with similar formatting.