Cannot start Carpentry

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I'd like to thank you guys who responded, much appreciated. I was able to figure it out last night, after reading between the lines on your posts. And I just wrote my own rant, that maybe a search engine will pick up on it and anyone else having the issue will actually get a hit on what to do. We're not all that experienced at playing these things, and some of us are just...well...OLD, and have jobs and stuff and play casually

Soooo here's my big rant

Not one single crafting guide I found online actually tells a brand new player who never played how to start crafting. They all say like "Click Synthesize and you're done!" This is not true. Crafting in the game is like fighting. When you are BRAND NEW and trying to learn, and you click Synthesize, NOTHING HAPPENS. A NEW ITEM APPEARS ON THE ACTION BAR AT THE BOTTOM, AND YOU HAVE TO THEN CLICK ON THE BUTTON ON THE BAR BELOW TO START. It astounds me that no guide has this listed for newbies. I'm brand new.

I'm not a guru gamer like a lot of you people writing so-called beginner guides with terminology no newbie would have a clue what it means, because well, we're NEW right?

It took me a long time to figure out this vital step to just BEGIN CRAFTING, because I wasn't expecting crafting to be like...fighting, where you use an item to just get it started, because everyone on the web says Click Synthesize and you're all set!

I’ve only played a few different games and only one other MMO really, and when you click the main button, the crafting actually starts. Not like that in FFXIV, you have to “act” like you’re fighting an enemy by using skills on the action bars at the bottom to even get started.

Oh, did I mention that Crafting in Final Fantasy doesn’t just work when you click Synthesize like everyone on the internet says? You have to click the action that appears in the action bar AFTER clicking Synthesize, or it won’t work. And astoundingly, not even FFXIV's own newbie guides state this.