Wiley Office 2010 For Seniors For Dummies 978-0-470-58302-9 Manuel D’Utilisation

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...or click the arrow to open

a menu of other settings

A command button
(opens dialog box)

Click the button face

to apply the most recent setting

An on/off toggle

A button set

Click here to open
the Paragraph dialog box

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On/off toggles: When the button is selected (it turns 
orange), the feature is on. Each time you click the 
button, it switches between on and off.

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Command buttons: When you click the button, the 
command executes. If you click a command button 
again, the command repeats.

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Connected button sets: In connected sets of but-
tons, selecting a button deselects (cancels) the previ-
ous selection in the set.

 

  For example, Figure 1-3 has four buttons in the bot-

tom row for paragraph alignment. The leftmost one 
is selected; if you click one of the others, it’s auto-
matically canceled.

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Menu buttons: Buttons with arrows on them open 
menus or color palettes.

You can hover the mouse pointer over a button to see a pop-up box, 
called a ScreenTip, that tells the button’s name and/or purpose.

With some buttons that contain arrows, you can click anywhere on the 
button face — directly on the arrow or not — to open the menu or 
palette (an array of colored squares from which you can choose a 

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