- [Instructor] As you learn Word,
there will be lots of commands and controls to remember,
but there are so many menus and ribbons,
it's not always easy to remember
where to find certain commands.
Fortunately, Word can help you find what you need.
Now this works a bit differently on Mac and Windows.
If you're on Windows, you can go to this search field
at the top of the window.
Now this does not search for text in your document.
There is a find command in the home ribbon
that will search in your document,
but we'll cover that in a separate video.
Instead, this search field up at the top
will let you search for help in Word.
So let's say you wanted to print your document,
but you don't know where to find that option.
You can click on that field
and you can search for what you're looking for.
And I have not hit the return key.
I just typed in the search term,
and I see some options here.
And I can actually activate one of these commands,
right from this menu.
I can click on that, and it takes me to the backstage view
where I have my print controls.
For now, I'm just going to click the back button
up here in the top left to go back to my document.
And let's go back to the search field
and search for print again.
This time, instead of just activating a command
from the search, I want to take the opportunity
to learn how to do this normally.
So I can click where it says get help on print.
That opens up this panel over on the right side.
I can see a few different topics.
And I think printing and print preview
is what I'm looking for.
And I can get the instructions on how to do that from here.
Naturally, when I'm finished, I can just close that panel.
So that's how it works on Windows.
Now let's see how it works on a Mac.
Now on a Mac, you do not have that search field.
Instead, you can click towards the right side of the ribbons
where it says, tell me, and then you can search
for the topic that you're interested in.
And once again, you don't have to hit the return key,
just type it in there.
And here you have that same feature where you can
activate a command directly from the search results,
but the option where it explains how to find
or use a command is not here.
For that, you'll need to go to the help menu
all the way up at the top of the screen.
And once again, you can search for what you're looking for.
And this does two things.
First, if you point at one of these options,
it will show you where that command is in the menus.
So you could then activate it from here,
or you could just use this as a way to learn
where that command is.
But this is a Mac OS feature, not a Word feature.
So while it does show you commands that are in the menus,
it will not show you where to find those same commands
in the ribbon interface in Word.
Now, another option here is to click where it says,
get help on, the thing that you searched for.
And that opens this information panel
to explain how to use the feature.
So you'll need to look at the results here,
and I want to print a document, so I'll click on that option
and I can see those instructions.
And naturally you can close this panel when you're finished.
You'll learn a lot of options and controls
as you go through this course,
but if you need them in the future
and you can't remember where to find them,
I think these search features will be very helpful.