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All right, so in the previous modules we have just worked with composing a new e-mail, so we've done that, we sent it out, and using the Send/Receive options you can see that I'm able to get an Internet based e-mail account, like Gmail.com, able to receive that in Outlook by correctly configuring the account properties as you saw in the previous chapter of this tutorial. Now I want to just point out a little bit more about some of the formatting options you have with a particular e-mail message. And for that, let's just click on New here, to create a new e-mail message. And what I'm going to do here is point out some of the other options you have in the Ribbon essentially. So what I'll do is I will first insert my insertion point into the message area of the e-mail, and I'll start to type, and I'll pause it while I do this. So, as you can see here, what magically appeared is just a very simple, pretty meaningless e-mail here, but that's not the idea, to extract a lot of meaning from it, but just to show you some of the options. So, one of the things I want to show you, and you might have seen this in the previous module, is that you have this floating palette. So if you make a selection of text, and I'll do that by double clicking the word weather, notice that I have this little floating palette that appears just above it. And the closer I move my mouse to that floating palette, the more opaque it gets until the mouse is resting on it all together. And with this, I can make changes to the font, I can make change to the font size, I can make very basic highlighting, change the color, change the highlighting and so on, change it to bold; all the things I can do typically with just a piece of text, basically, I can do with that formatting palette. Those are essentially the options you see in this message tab of the Ribbon under Basic Text, so it's just to save you a trip up, it's to reduce the amount of clicking that you do, and that's something that you'll see throughout the rest of Office 2007. To reduce the number of clicks that it takes to make something happen. Now, other formatting, more robust formatting can be accessed from this Format Text tab, which is in the Ribbon. And now you have your full range of bullet points, your cut, copy, paste. You can apply quick styles, and change styles. So if you want to select text, and you can set the insertion point sometimes to apply some of the paragraph styles. So you can say this is going to be the title of my e-mail, and to apply a quick style, notice that it applies formatting, font type, resizes, puts an underline and so on. So again, all of that can be done with your Format Text tab and using some of the styles here. Same thing with your bullet points, if you want to make a bullet point list, you also have the ability to go into your bullet points and change them to square, change them to the little colorful ones, or diamond shaped ones, or check marks like this. And what you're also seeing is another new innovation with Office 2007, and that is the live preview feature. The live preview has the ability, as the name suggests, for you to preview what the changes are going to look like before you make them effective, with one click. So what would take you five, six, eight clicks before, or opening up a dialog box, now can be done with just a single click in the Ribbon. For example, if you want to still use dialog boxes by the way, they're there. So in the groupings, you can still open up the Font Dialog box, and make changes manually. But again, you're four or five clicks away from making something happen, and then you're closing it and then saying well, ok, do I like that, do I not. Otherwise, or I should say alternatively, use the Ribbon, and you can see exactly what a change is going to look like before you make it effective, and you do it with one single click. So again, the Font Dialog box is still there. The Paragraph Dialog box that you are used to using with your menus is still there. By the way, where are the menus? How do you get back to the menus? You don't. You use a previous version of the Office suite of applications. Finally what I want to point out here, if you're using a resolution like I am, you notice that the Ribbon can take up a lot of desktop real estate, and so you may want to leave more real estate open for your message. And higher resolutions, this probably is not going to be any big deal at all. But you can minimize the Ribbon; you saw this probably as we were customizing the Quick Access Toolbar. You can minimize the Ribbon. But another easier way to do it in my opinion, is just make a selection on any of the tabs here, and give the thing a double click. So, again, if you want more real estate, double click; double click again to reshow the Ribbon, format your text and then send it off. Also, as we were dealing with the different formats, keep in mind that if you're dealing with Plain Text, all of that is gone. You can still use a bullet list, but of course it's going to look a lot different, and you're not going to have that ability to make pictures in your bullet text, as you do with HTML.