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One of the major features of Office 2013 is the extended support for touch screen devices. In this video, you will see a clear demonstration about the usage of Touch. With the use of Touch mode, you can easily access the button and other commands within a Ribbon and quick access toolbar. From this video, you will see the convenience of using the touch screen approach compared to using a keyboard and mouse. You can get more ideas on the usage of Touch on Microsoft.com and there is help available both for Windows 7 users and for Windows 8 users.

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Welcome back to our course on Word 2013. As I mentioned earlier one of the major features of Office 2013 is the extended support for touch screen devices. And during this course, I’m going to try to make sure that I cover the needs of touch screen users as comprehensively as I can. However, this does present a couple of issues. One of the issues is that I really don’t want to have to go through every single thing in the course twice, because it’ll take a very long time and the touch screen device people would get bored with having to do everything with a keyboard and mouse and vice versa. So I’ll really generally speaking I’m going to cover each topic once. However, particularly in the early stages, I do need to point out what the equivalent actions are. So for example, generally speaking when I say click during the course, I mean click with a mouse. Generally speaking that would be the equivalent of tap with a touch screen device having said that, click and tap don’t always do exactly the same things as you will see.

Now just to give you some idea of what I mean by this, I’ve actually got a Word document open here. You don’t need to worry about everything that you can see on the screen particularly if you are new to Word. Just look at this shape in the middle. This is a picture within a Word document. And if I were to click on that picture with the mouse, what effectively happens is it selects that picture. If I tap with my finger, it not only selects the picture but it comes up with a little toolbar. Now that toolbar that you see there, you don’t get that with the mouse. However if I right click on the picture with my mouse, you get a completely different menu. Now in the end what you can do using these two approaches comes out to be the same. But sometimes what you see, if you like the route towards what you want to do is different with the two approaches.

Now as I said it would take a very long time to go through everything twice and show you all of the options, all of the things that might happen depending on which device you’re using. So I’m generally speaking going to demonstrate things using keyboard and mouse because that’s still the set of user interface tools that most people use. But particularly where it’s very different or where it’s very significant, I’m also going to show you the touch screen approach. And in the early stages I’ll tend to show you both, particularly when we cover a new type of what we call gesture or we cover a new situation for instance when we first look at putting pictures into documents.

Now in terms of getting started with touch, there’s some help that you can get on Microsoft.com and there is help available both for Windows 7 users and for Windows 8 users. And there is also general information about using touch in Office 2013. Now a lot of the information specifically related to Office 2013, we’re going to be looking at a little bit later on when we start to look at Help.


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