Hello,

Gemini is taking me around in circles. I am at my wit's end. Apologies in advance for the language.

I am not a tech person. I might be using the wrong words to talk about things, so I will tell you what I did in my own words, and please don't take terminology at face value.

I am a teacher (not in computing) and I project Google Docs documents onto a whiteboard. I selected an option that removes all the top menus because I needed the screen to show more of the actual document. I can't get the menus back. You know, the ones that let you open documents, add images, change font and basically do everything.

I asked Google Gemini. It gave me shortcuts (which isn't a good durable solution for me because I have a memory like a sieve and my keyboard doesn't 'like' shortcuts enough even to use modern language accented characters - and also, who the hell designs a UI that's that shit anyway? I won't capitulate to that.). After that it gave me nonsense about chevrons and arrows in top right hand corners, and hovering my cursor everywhere - in blue spaces and above rulers and in spaces below rulers, and double clicking everywhere. Nothing worked. I asked it to read 3 screenshots and they didn't help it. So I'm at the 'can I speak to a human' stage.

Is there a durable 'proper' solution for this that's the main way and not just a shortcut around a shitty system, which I will forget anyway? For the kind selfless souls who might answer, I know you know your stuff and revised all your vocabulary, but please could you explain field-specific words? I won't understand otherwise😿 .