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Starting Word by opening a document
Word is a computer program. You use that program to create documents,
which are stored on your computer in much the same way as people pile junk
into boxes and store them in their garages. But that’s not important. What is
important is that you can use those documents to start Word: Opening a Word
document causes Word to start
and to display that document for editing,
printing, or just giving others the impression that you’re doing something.
Here’s one way you can start Word by opening a document:
1. Open the Documents folder.
The Documents folder, also called My Documents in some versions of
Windows, is where Word, as well as other applications, stores the stuff
you create. You can find this folder on the desktop, or you can get at it
from the Start menu.
The Documents folder opens and displays its content, which is the stuff
you’ve already created and saved to disk.
2. Locate a Word document.
A Word document appears, as shown in the margin.
3. Double-click the Word document icon.
Word starts and loads the document for editing, reading, modifying,
perusing, cussing, mangling, and potentially fouling up beyond all
recognition.
You can open any Word document by following these steps. The document
can be on the desktop, in the Documents folder, or in any other folder or
location where a Word document icon can lurk.
 The document name appears beneath or to the right of the icon. You
can use the name to determine the document’s contents — as long as
the document was properly named when it was saved to disk. (More
on that later.)
Word shortcut icon on the desktop
Drag the Word icon here.
Figure 1-1:
Putting
Word on the
Quick
Launch bar.
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