The Home tab page is the default page of the diagram ribbon.

The Home tab b lists common commands for working with the document:

• Clipboard: lets you Cut or Copy the currently selected shapes. When there are compatible objects in the clipboard you can also use the Paste button to paste them in your diagram.
• Text - lets you control the font, size and appearance of the text of the currently selected shape.
• Paragraph - lets you specify the text alignment of the currently selected shape.
• Shape Style - lets you control the fill, stroke, shadow and corner rounding of the currently selected shape. For 1D shape (i.e. connectors) you can also specify the begin and end arrowhead styles.
• Tools - contains a set of tools that you can activate in order to create custom shapes, edit the geometry of a shape, insert text, pan the diagram or simply to go back to the default tool as shown on the above image - the pointer tool.            

The Design tab allows configuration of the theme of the active page and the style of individual shapes.

The Design tab page consists of the following ribbon groups:

• Page - lets you configure the orientation and the size of the active page.
• Shape Style - lets you quickly style a shape using a shape style from the currently selected page theme and variant.
• Page Theme - lets you quickly change the look of all shapes in a page by changing the theme of the page.
• Page Theme Variant - can be used to apply a variant of the currently selected theme to the active page.

For more information about the drawing themes and shape styles, check out the Themes and Styles documentation topic.

The Action tab lets you manipulate the currently selected shape/shapes.

The Action tab consists of the following ribbon groups:

• Group - lets you group and ungroup a set of shapes.
• Rotate - lets you flip or rotate a shape.
• Compose - lets you create a complex geometry shape by performing a geometry operation to a set of shapes.

The Arrange tab lets you position, size and align your shapes:

The Arrange tab page consists of the following ribbon groups:

• Align - lets you align two or more shapes.
• Resize - lets you size one or more shapes to another shape.
• Position - lets you position a shape within the page.
• Z-order - lets you bring a shape above or below other shapes.
• Spacing - lets you configure the spacing between two or more shapes.
• Grid - lets you align or size shapes to grid.
• Snap - lets you configure the snapping behavior of MyDraw.
• Layout - contains a Layout Shapes button, which when clicked opens a dialog for selecting, configuring and applying an automatic layout to the selected or all shapes of your diagram.

The Insert tab lets you insert an object into the document.

The Insert tab page currently has the following ribbon groups:

• Illustrations - lets you easily insert an image or a 1D/2D barcode to your diagram. If you insert a barcode, you can then right click it to modify its properties.
• Symbols - lets you insert special text characters and symbols into the text block of a shape
• Text - lets you insert hyperlinks and different text fields into the text block of a shape

The Review tab lets you perform a spell check of the texts of a drawing.

The Review tab currently has the following ribbon buttons:

• Spell Check - a toggle button that enables or disables the spell checking for the whole document.
• Symbols - lets you select the spell check dictionary to use. You can use any of the included spell check dictionaries or load a different spell check dictionary using the Browse button. MyDraw is compatible with Open Office spell check dictionaries.

The Mailings tab lets you configure and perform a mail merge operation.

For more information, check out the Mail Merge topic.

The View tab lets you control the visibility, the behavior and the settings of various elements of the drawing view.

For more information, check out the Drawing View topic.

The application menu is shown when you click on File. It contains menu items for saving the diagram or loading a diagram from a file, for printing and export and so on. It also contains the menu item for showing the About dialog and the button that shows the Options dialog, which you can use to switch the current UI theme, or switch to traditional command bar UI. It also lets you switch the user interface to another language. The application menu also contains a New menu option that opens the Start screen.

The right side of the application menu shows the recently opened/saved documents with the ability to pin the ones you find more important.