About the standard tabs in Word

The Home tab

Home contains the most-used Word features, such as tools for changing fonts and font attributes, customising paragraphs, using styles, and finding and replacing text.

The Insert tab

Insert handles anything you might want to incorporate into a document, such as tables, pictures, videos, shapes, symbols, charts, hyperlinks, bookmarks, headers and footers.

The Design tab

Design lets you manage a document’s overall design, from choosing a pre-designed template or theme to customising colours, fonts, paragraph spacing and more. Some of its commands are similar to those found on the Home tab and Layout tab. However, the changes made via this tab affect the entire document, instead of individual parts of the document, like paragraphs.

The Layout tab

Layout allows you to change margins, page size and orientation, set up columns, align objects, add effects, and so on. The changes you make via this tab generally affect individual paragraphs or sections of the document you’ve selected (not the entire document).

The References tab

 References handles tables of contents, footnotes, bibliographies, indexes, and similar reference material.

The Review tab

Review gives you the tools to check spelling or grammar, look up a word in a thesaurus, work in markup mode, review other people’s markups and compare documents.

The View tab

View provides the functionality to change the document view, including displaying a ruler and grid lines, zooming in and out, splitting a window in two, and so on.

The Help tab

Help gives you access to Word’s Help pane and Microsoft support. You will also find tutorials here.