Getting to Know AutoCAD - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 19

Ribbon Tabs

Large Tool Icon (Button) Panel

Collapsed Ribbon Panel

FiGuRE 1.19 The Ribbon fully displaying all panels (top) and with partially and
completely collapsed panels (bottom)

Ribbon Panels Similar tools are grouped together into a series of Ribbon pan-
els. For instance the Move, Erase, and Rotate tools modify objects. Consequently,
each of these tools is found on the Modify Ribbon panel.

Ribbon tabs Ribbon tabs offer the highest level of organization; they group Ribbon
panels by task. For instance, commands related to plotting (printing) are found on
the Output tab, whereas commands related to entering text can be found on the
Annotate tab.