Open Documents


You can display documents you previously saved on-screen. When you open a document, you can make changes to it.

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OPEN A WORD DOCUMENT

  1. Click File.

  2. Click Open.

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    The Open dialog box appears.

  3. Click the Look in image from book to navigate to the folder containing the document you want to open.

    image from book You can double-click a folder to see the documents in it.

    image from book You can click these buttons to navigate to common file locations.

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  4. Click the document you want to open.

  5. Click Open.

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    The document appears on-screen.

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Are there other ways to open a document?

Yes. Recently used documents appear in the Getting Started task pane and at the bottom of the File menu. You also can click the More icon in the Getting Started task pane or the Open button (image from book) on the Standard toolbar to display the Open dialog box shown in this section.

  1. Click File.

  2. Click a document to open it.

    image from book Alternatively, you can click a document in the Getting Started task pane to open it.

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You can open documents created by colleagues using several other word processing programs besides Word.

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OPEN A DOCUMENT IN ANOTHER FORMAT

  1. Click File.

  2. Click Open.

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    The Open dialog box appears.

  3. Click the Look in image from book to navigate to the file you want to open.

    image from book You can double-click a folder to view the documents in it.

    image from book You can click these buttons to navigate to common file locations.

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  4. Click the Files of type image from book to select the type of document you want to open.

  5. Click the file you want to open.

  6. Click Open.

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    Note 

    You may be prompted to install a converter to open the file; click Yes or OK to install the converter and open the file.

    The Convert File dialog box appears.

  7. Select the program that created the file.

  8. Click OK.

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    Word opens the file.

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I set my Save options to create a backup copy. How do I open the backup copy?

Follow these step:

  1. Follow steps 1 to 3 in this section.

  2. Click the Files of type image from book and click All Files.

  3. Click the arrow portion of image from book and click image from book.

  4. Select the document.

    In the Name column, the file name appears as “Backup of” the original document.

    In the Type column, “Microsoft Word Backup Document” appears.

  5. Click Open.

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Teach Yourself Visually Word 2003
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2003
ISBN: 0764539973
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 175
Authors: Ruth Maran

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