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Now, the Ribbon in AutoCAD Electrical 2010 is the same as it is in a Standard AutoCAD 2010 installation, it's just you have different tabs and different tools on the Ribbon because you're running AutoCAD Electrical. What I'm going to do here for a little bit more space in the drawing area is close the Project Manager. I'm also going to zoom out slightly and just literally hold down the wheel on the mouse and move the mouse and pan across so I've got some space here. Now here's the Ribbon at the top of the screen. Now I'm utilizing the Ribbon because it is in your standard workspace in AutoCAD Electrical. Now to change your Workspace as you go down here on the Status Bar to here and click, Workspace Switching. Now ACADE stands for AutoCAD Electrical and 2D Drafting and Annotation. Now I could just go back to the Standard AutoCAD 2D Drafting and Annotation if I wanted to. The ACAD Electrical and 2D Drafting and Annotation Workspace sets you up with an electrical workspace. The Tab Names here are different: Project, Schematic and so on and the Project Manager switches on. I'll close that again for clarity. So, if I now go to any tab, let's say the Home tab, the Home tab is the default AutoCAD tab when you're using the Ribbon. I can look at these Panels, so I have Draw, Modify, Annotation, Layers, Block, Properties, Utilities and Clipboard. Now if I click and drag on that Panel name and drag it into the drawing area and release that gives me what is known as a Sticky Panel. Now this is great. I can hover over this, I can change the orientation of the Sticky Panel, like so. I can click on it again and I can get the fly-out there as well. Now you'll notice, I cannot pin out any fly-outs when I've got a Sticky Panel running. You'll notice that. I can do that up here. So if I go to Modify and Pin, that'll pin that open for me, but I can't do that on a Sticky Panel, just be aware of that. So I'll just unpin that there and the good thing is I can now go to a different tab, let's say Schematic and I can still hover here and go to this little Icon here, Return Panel to Ribbon. The Sticky Panel disappears, I go back to the Home tab, and the Draw Panel is back exactly where it should be. So you can see the Ribbon is very, very useful. Now, watch. If I go up here, can you see here - Minimize to Panel titles - if I click there like that it minimizes to the Panel Titles, so each Panel appears. So I don't have to have that Ribbon there. If I click on it again, like so, it disappears completely, click on it again brings the Ribbon back. So I've got three settings there just on that little Icon - Minimize to Panel Titles. Now if I right-click on this gray area here I can actually undock the Ribbon as well. So if I undock it now look, the Ribbon is now a floating tool on the screen, so I can move my Ribbon around and if I just dock it over here does that remind you of another version of AutoCAD somewhere? Maybe AutoCAD 2008 with the Dashboard? Looks very familiar, doesn't it? And if I click and drag here I can undock it and bring it back out again. If I click and drag upwards so that it floats that way and release it puts the Ribbon up at the top of the screen where it was before. So you can see there, the Ribbon is a very versatile drafting environment. You've got you Tabs here, like so; you've got your Panels and your Sticky Panels, so Terminal Footprints - click and drag, I can just drop that out here like that. If I hover here like this and click there it puts it back onto the Ribbon for me. So there are loads of tools there. What I've also got up here, look, I've got the Help here so I can type in a keyword or a phrase, so let's type in circuit as we're in AutoCAD Electrical and what I'll do I'll click on Search there and that will then search for me and find the word circuits, for example, Electrical Users Guide, AutoCAD User Guide, Autodesk Online - so there are lots of different search engines there to find information that you need, again, built into the Ribbon and the Toolbars just above the Ribbon there. So the Ribbon is extremely versatile, extremely easy to use and what I really like about it is everything is neat and tidy. You have three layers of Icons in every Panel and it doesn't differ, so it's all consistent and very easy to see and very easy to understand, thus making your usage of AutoCAD Electrical that more pleasurable because you find it easy to use. You're comfortable with it.