creating A DOCUMENT

Creating a file in Microsoft Word

This section uses Word to create a file. Another name for a file is called a document.

The first step is to open Word. If the Word program is on your Desktop, then you can enter on it there to open the program. If it isn't, then follow the steps below to open Word from the Start Menu.

1. Press the Windows key.
2. In the search box that opens, type word and press enter.
3. Wait a few seconds and you should here that Word had opened. Your trainer may need to answer some questions to finish setting up Word. (See the section for setting up Word at the end of these lessons.)

Now that word is open and hopefully at a blank document screen, we can begin writing a letter. Word has to give the page a name and it will call it "document1.doc". For the example of this lesson, it would be good to type the same text that we give to you in this lesson so there will be continuity of our lessons. ON that note, type out the first four lines of the poem "Mary had a Little Lamb. Type it the best you can and as much as you can remember. It has four lines to the first stanza.

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Now the next lesson will show you how to save a file exactly the way you wrote it. Press enter on the next link to learn how to save files that you create, Saving a Document

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