The Ribbon contains most of the features you will use when creating a document. The Ribbon is organized into different tabs, each tab contains features relevant to that tab

 

 

The Home tab contains all the items you will use the most when creating a document, such as font styles, font sizes, paragraph styles, numbering, bullets as well as basic tools such as cut, copy and paste and find/replace

 

 

The Insert tab contains options to insert tables, pictures, drawings as well as page breaks, headers/footers and other elements such as date/time, signatures etc

 

 

The Page Layout tab contains options to alter page size, margins and general layout settings for items on the page

 

 

The References tab contains options to insert table of contents, footnotes and citations

 

 

The Mailings tab has all the options relating to creating envelopes, labels and performing mail merge

 

 

The Review tab contains items to proof (spellcheck etc) your document as well as tracking changes and protecting your document

 

 

The View tab contains options for changing the current view, zooming in/out and rulers/guidelines etc