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The Home Tab

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The Home Tab (Figure 3.11) contains the following groups:

Figure 3.11 Home Tab

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Clipboard

o	The Paste command allows you to paste something from the clipboard. The label of the Paste command will change depending on the type of object(s) in the clipboard.

o	The precise text beside the Cut, and Copy commands will change depending on which object(s) in the layout are currently selected.

The Duplicate command duplicates the selected item. By clicking on the down arrow associated with Duplicate, the command expands to reveal five items: Duplicate, Duplicate and Next, Duplicate and Prev(ious), Multiple Duplicate and Next, and Multiple Duplicate and Prev(ious). The Next and Prev functions associated with these commands duplicate the selected object(s) and changes to the next or previous file in your data list. The Multiple commands allow you to make more than one copy of the selected item. The positioning of the duplicated objects can be set in the user options.

The items in the Clipboard group will operate on plot windows, text boxes, statistics windows, and more, depending on which object(s) are currently selected in the layout page. Items (e.g., Text Boxes) can be copied from one layout to another. You can switch between open layouts using the View tab→Windows→Switch Windows command.

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Pages

o	The top half of the New Page command adds a new page to your layout. The bottom half of the New Page command opens a gallery with numerous choices for adding a new page with Place Holders for predefined layouts containing various text boxes, plots, and statistics.

o	The Layout command opens a gallery for adding Place Holders for predefined text boxes, plots, and statistics to the current page.

o	The Delete Page command deletes the current page.

o	The Master Page command shows the Master Page.

o	The Hidden Pages command is used to show pages that the user has previously chosen to hide in the layout.

•	Page Layout

o	The Page Setup command allows you to determine the page Size, Orientation, Margins with any default or custom values as well as to choose to Maintain the size of all objects on the layout.

o	The Size command allows you to pick a page size from a list of default sizes.

o	The Orientation command allows you to choose to view the layout in a portrait or landscape mode.

o	The Margins command allows you to choose from four default margin size.

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Editing

o	The Select All command selects all of the object(s) on the current page.

o	The Delete command deletes the currently selected object(s).

The Arrange command expands to allow you to Order Objects, Group Objects, and Position Objects. Order Objects allows you to organize which objects are visually on top of other objects. This feature is useful when working with multiple overlapping objects. Group Objects allows you to group several objects together, so that selecting any one of the objects will automatically select all items in the group. Position Objects is used for aligning the sides, tops, bottoms, centers, heights and/or widths of the selected objects.