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In this section, your trainer discusses the Mini Toolbar and the Minibar, the latter term being used within the concept of touch in Word 2013. Although they are two slightly different things, they achieve similar effects. The Mini Toolbar allows you access to some selection of commands, but of course, you still have access to all the tabs and commands in the Ribbon. The Minibar the you get when using touch screen, specifically, gives you access to a specific set of commands that are contextually related to where you are. And if you switch to touch mode on the Ribbon, the commands on the Ribbon will be spaced out in much the same way as the ones in the minibar. Would you like to know more about the Mini Toolbar? Watch this tutorial!

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Hello and welcome back to our course on Word 2013. In this section, we’re going to look at the mini toolbar in Word 2013. I probably say the mini toolbar and the minibar because within the concept of touch this particular device in Word 2013 tends to being referred to as the minibar so far. But effectively although they are two slightly different things they achieve similar effects. So I’m going to talk about them both in this section.

Now we haven’t looked at selecting text yet, but I’m going to select some text here just to demonstrate what I mean by the mini toolbar. And I’m selecting this text with the mouse. So I’m going to select the text of the word World and as I release the mouse button just watch what happens. I get a little toolbar just up on the right of where the cursor is pointing at the moment. That’s the mini toolbar and on that I have a selection of commands. One of them, the one that’s highlighted in blue on the left there is the Bold command. This text is currently Bold that’s why it’s highlighted. I could if I wanted to move the cursor say on to the I, select that as well, and the text now would be Bold and Italic. And then, of course, all I have to do to switch off Bold is to just click on the Bold button and it’s now just Italic text.

Now let’s look at doing the equivalent with touch. So let me just select World with my finger. Now having made that selection, I tap on that and I see the minibar. Now the options on the minibar are very similar to the ones that we saw in the mini toolbar using mouse and keyboard. They’re much more spaced out to make it easy to make a selection using fingers. I could, for instance, just make that selection Bold by tapping on Bold. And in addition I have a drop down on the right hand end of the minibar that gives me access to a contextual menu.

On that menu I have Font, Paragraph, but I also have commands like Translate, Search with Bing, Hyperlink. We’ll look at those commands later on, but as you can see the minibar that you get in touch gives you access a specific set of commands that are contextual related to where you are. And of course, you still have access to everything on the available tabs on the Ribbon. If you’ve switched to touch mode on the Ribbon, of course, the commands on the Ribbon will be spaced out in much the same way that the ones on the minibar here are as well.