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Ribbon introduction and tabs

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Ribbon introduction and tabs

- [Instructor] The ribbon, or this series of horizontally organized tabs at the top of the screen, will look familiar to Microsoft Office users. We'll be using it to set up some essential parts of our workspace. So I'll start over here at the left and click on "File". And we have lots and lots of options down here on the side, but the one I'm interested in is configuration. We bring up configuration and then configuration itself also has a pretty daunting amount of options. And I want you to take a look down here at "Start and Exit" which I already happen to have highlighted. You can see that every time we open up the program, one thing we can tell the configuration to do is either start up in English or metric units. I prefer working in metric, and you can see that my workspace is already in metric down here at the right. And so I don't want to have to switch it to metric every single time I open the program, so I'll switch to metric there at start up. You can also see down here at…

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