WORD: The Home Tab/Ribbon

The Microsoft Word Menu Bar has been "upgraded" to a Ribbon.  

MAC Users: You still have a Menu Bar, if you can’t find what you are looking for on the Ribbon try looking in the Menus.

At the top, you have Menu tabs.  Each tab has a Ribbon.  

You will see that the commands are grouped on the Ribbon to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for.

Home Tab/Ribbon (Part 1)

UNDO GROUP

The First group is "Undo."  In this group, you can undo the last few things you did in the document and redo them if you undo too many. To undo something click on the arrow pointing left.  To redo something click on the arrow pointing right. There is supposed to be a limited number of undo commands, but I have never run into it.

CLIPBOARD GROUP

The Second group is the Clipboard.  The Clipboard is magic.  Anytime you copy or cut something it goes onto the Clipboard, and you don’t see anything happen, then when you want to paste it, you just click on paste and it will put what you cut or copied wherever your cursor is.   Cut removes what item you cut from the place where you had it.  Copy leaves the item where it is and allows you to paste the same thing somewhere else in the document. You can have up to 24 items on the Clipboard AND get this That Clipboard is the same one for PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook.  That means you can copy something in, say, Excel and then paste it into Word, etc. You will also find the Format Painter in the Clipboard group, this is a magic paintbrush that will copy the formatting you have put on some text and by brushing it over text in another place in your document, you will get the same formatting. You will also find the Special Paste options if you want to do something specific with the item you are pasting.  See the little arrow under the word Paste, that indicates there is something more to see if you click on it.

NOTE:  Most group have a “more options” button in the lower right-hand corner of the group.  If you click on that you will get new options related to that group.  As an example the more options button in the Clipboard group will open the clipboard window and show you everything you have put on the clipboard, you can then pick and choose what you want to paste.

 

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The Font Group

 

 

New Task

I have a new task, creating tips and tricks for my 97-year-old mother so she can use her electronic devices.

This one is for using her iPhone.  She has hearing aids that link into the phone, sometimes it doesn't work and she gets confused.  These are instructions to put the phone on speaker so she can hear.  Feel free to use it.

189th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

What do you do to make General Conference exciting in your home?  Here are a few ideas I and others have used to become and remain engaged in the process.

1. Make the weekend fun, plan a full two days of favorite foods and activities around conference time. Involve every family member in planning the weekend with crafts, food, activities, and journals
2. Have a project you work on only during conference. We worked on a conference quilt embroidering designs on blocks to include in the quilt
3. Have everyone select a word ("the" is not allowed) and every time the person hears her or his word they get a small treat
4. Play conference bingo
5. Keep a conference journal like this one or this one
6. Listen and write down any blessings you hear in conference talks
7. Make a general conference wall here is one way to do it for small children
8. Play Fantasy General Conference
9. Have dinner with an apostle
10. For small children make General Conference Stations in the TV Room
11. Download the Conference Family Packet October 2019 (PDF Download) from Deseret Books
12. Make a memory game with pictures of the apostles or church images
13. For small children, make a stained glass window with clear contact paper and small squares of tissue paper (see image below)
14. Make a doodle book such as this one or this one
15. Make a conference bracelet by picking a topic for each color of the bead and add that color to the bracelet when you hear the topic
16. Conference banana split, with each talk they make notes on they earn part of a banana split (banana, a scoop of ice cream, hot fudge, caramel, nuts, whipped cream, etc.)
17. Make a conference breakfast cake 

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Choose some pictures from the Gospel Art Kit to hang on your General Conference Wall. I chose topics that are fairly likely to be mentioned, such as temples, Jesus, and Book of Mormon, and stories that my children are very familiar with and would recognize if mentioned, such as Samuel the Lamanite and Joseph Smith's First Vision.

I printed off a current set of Apostle cards and laminated them. Now, the children will be encouraged to listen to the speakers and a) recognize who is speaking, and b) listen for the speaker to mention any of the topics on our Wall. If they mention something on our Conference Wall, then the children can tape the Apostle's picture on the appropriate Gospel Art Picture. (from https://www.wetalkofchrist.com/2010/04/general-conference-wall.html)

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1.        (draw outline of image on contact paper this is the conference center)

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Conference Breakfast Cake with a Cream Filling

Ingredients

Yield: 13 x 9 cake

For the filling:

Two 8 oz. packages cream cheese, softened

½ cup sugar

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1 large egg

For the cake:

3 cups Bisquick

½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened

1 cup sugar

4 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup sour cream

For the streusel topping:

¼ cup sugar

¼ cup flour

3 tablespoons butter, chilled and cubed

For the glaze:

¼ cup confectioners’ sugar

1 ½ teaspoons milk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350°F.  Grease/flour or spray a 9 x 13 cake pan. Set aside.

Make the filling:  Mix the cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla until creamy.  Set aside for the filling.

Make the cake batter:  Cream together the butter and sugar.  Add eggs one at a time.  Add the vanilla extract.  Slowly pour in the Bisquick alternating with the sour cream until it is all combined.

Spread half of the batter into the prepared cake pan with a spatula.  Spread the cream cheese filling evenly on top. Top with remaining cake batter and smooth with a spatula.

Using a butter knife, gently swirl in the batter.

Make the topping:  Add the sugar, flour and chilled butter in a small bowl.  Stir using a fork or pastry blender until the mixture is crumbly.  Sprinkle the streusel on top of cake batter.

Bake for 40-45 minutes until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.  Cool on a rack.

To make the glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and milk until creamy. Drizzle over cake.

On Managing My Time

It seems a simple thing to write down a schedule and stick to it.  I made a nice little schedule to be sure I got everything done for BYU-Idaho.  See it really is a nice little schedule

What this nice little schedule doesn't account for is my 97-year-old mother.  She is self-sufficient, but not completely.  Between 7 and 8 a.m. I helped her three times, each time interrupting my thought process and requiring a reset.  They weren't big things, finding a cap to her pills that she dropped, reminding her how to use her new hair product, and then later taking the spray bottle for the new hair product and pumping all the air out until it actually would spray.

Something else this nice little schedule doesn't account for is my sweet Tarzan who called me during my 8:00 hour to discuss finances.  This caused an interruption of thought and required a reset as well.

And then there are the dogs.  They had cornered some little creature and were actively trying to "get" it from under the electric lawnmower.  Fearing they would destroy the lawnmower, I went out and set the little guy free.

I decided a better way for me might be to make a list of tasks and prioritize them.  That way, when I get time to work on my schedule, I can start at the top and work down.

Using this list I had better success at accomplishing what is important.  I completed 1, 4, 7, and 8 before going to work.  Now that I have listed my priorities, I can be sure I get everything important done before the end of the day.

Daily:

1. Say my prayers
2. Visit with Tarzan before he goes to work
3. Study the scriptures
4. Participate in the Discussion Board
5. Email
6. Grading
7. Listen to Inspirational talks while I get ready for the day
8. Breakfast
9. Spend time with Mom-coordinate with sister
10. Lunch, Dinner
11. Spend time with Tarzan

Weekly:

1. TGL responsibilities
2. Visit someone in need
3. Extra study for Sunday School lesson
4. Read for enjoyment
5. Crochet

I think I'll try that for a week and see if I do better.  

Lucky Me

Lucky, lucky, lucky me
I'm a lucky son of a gun
I work eight hours, I sleep eight hours and have eight hours for fun ♪♫♫♪

Do you ever think about how lucky you are?  Getting away from thinking about your problems can make problems more bearable.  Try counting your blessings--you may have some of these and they are not in order, but here are a few things to think about.

Food on the table	Car to drive
House to live in	Bed to sleep on
Job to pay the bills	Family
Friends	The Godhead
Sunrise	Sunset
Pets	Moon
Sun	Clouds and Rain
Animal Life	Doctors and Nurses
Pedicures	Babies
Rainbows	Books to Read
Sunglasses	Shoes
Fingers	All Body Parts
Indoor Plumbing	Scriptures
Pepsi	Look for good Find joy Be happy Banish sad

Can't wait to see what's next

I woke up this morning to a normal day...Got up, went outside to water my flower/herb garden

Then, because it is Wednesday, I was going to clean the showers and tubs.  I went to get rags and all the red microfiber rags were in a pile waiting to be washed.  I have to use red in the bathroom because Tarzan now is the quality assurance manager for a corporate cleaning company and he has to keep them within OSHA rules.  One of those rules is only red in the bathroom and only green in the kitchen...

Green is for the Kitchen, blue is for dusting, yellow is for general cleaning, red for the bathroom...

So, I picked up the dirty cloths to put them in the washing machine and the washing machine had clothes in it that had been there for two days (in the Phoenix heat)...I put them in the dryer with extra Bounce in hopes they would not be sour and loaded the microfiber cloths in the washer.  Since I had nothing to wash the bathrooms with, I began assisting Tarzan has he put together our new coffee

table and end tables...

I suggested we read the instructions and went to get my glasses.  When I returned Tarzan nearly had the coffee table put together.  I began to look at the boxes we had left and expressed my confusion as there was still a box with legs for the coffee table.  Tarzan had put the end table legs on the coffee table.  In case you didn't know the end table legs are longer so they fit up next to the arms of the couch.  It's all better now, but...

I stepped into the shower to get ready for work.  I had taken everything off the shower caddy so I could clean it.  This put everything in the wrong place and I reached for the shampoos doused my hair with it and then realized it was body wash.  My hair felt like straw when I rinsed it out.

I was supposed to be at work at 9:00, but Tarzan and I had to go get blood tests first.  I finished getting ready by 7:30 and told Tarzan I had to be at work by 9:00.  He dilly-dallied along until 8:45 and we are a 1/2 hour drive away from the doctor.  Obviously, I was going to be late for work.  We got ready to leave and he told me we were going in separate cars.

WHAT?

Blood tests done, 1 hour late for work, hair that feels like straw, and I got out of the car to go into work and notice I have my house slippers on.

Life is good.

I am not my hair

I am not this skin

I am not your expectations no no

I am not my hair

I am not this skin

I am a soul that lives within

Does the way I wear my hair make me a better person?

Does the way I wear my hair make me a better friend?

Does the way I wear my hair determine my integrity?

I am expressing my creativity..

This was written for a breast cancer patient.  But it acts as a reminder to me--my hair is the most unhappy part of my life.  However, I have a hairdresser for the first time in my life who is a genius.  Look at this...I am not my hair, but I like what she has done with it.