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Chapter 1: Hello, Word!
If you click the Don’t Save button, your work isn’t saved, Word quits. If you
click the Cancel button, Word doesn’t quit and you can continue working.
✓ See Chapter 8 for more information on saving documents.
✓ Also see Chapter 8 on how to recover drafts of documents you failed to
save.
✓ You don’t have to quit Word just to start editing another document.
Refer to the next couple of sections for helpful, time-saving information!
✓ After quitting Word, you can continue to use Windows, by starting up
any other program, such as Spider Solitaire, or perhaps something more
calming, such as Call Of Duty.
Quit what you’re doing
without quitting Word
You don’t always have to quit Word. For example, if you’re merely stopping
work on one document to work on another, quitting Word is a waste of time.
Instead, you can close the document.
To close a document in Word, click the File tab and choose the Close com-
mand. Word banishes the document from its window, but then the program
sits there and waits for you to do something else, such as start working on a
new document or open a document you previously saved.
Bottom line: There’s no point is quitting Word when all you want to do is
start editing a new document.
✓ When you try to close a document before it has been saved, Word
displays a warning dialog box. Click the Save button to save your docu-
ment. If you want to continue editing, click the Cancel button and get
back to work.
✓ There’s no need to close a document, really. In fact, I work on a docu-
ment over a period of days and keep it open (and my PC turned on) the
entire time. Doesn’t hurt a thing. (I occasionally save it to disk, which is
important.)
✓ See Chapter 8 for more information about starting a new document.
✓ The keyboard shortcut for the Close command is Ctrl+W. That command
may seem weird, but it’s used to close documents in many programs.
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