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Part I: Your Introduction to Word
To start Word, you merely click the Word icon placed on the taskbar. Click!
And then Word starts. That’s the fastest and bestest way to begin your word
processing day.
Another way to have the Word icon always handy is to pin it to the Start menu
directly. In Step 3, choose the item named Pin to Start Menu. That way, the
Word icon always appears at the top of the list on the Start button menu.
Start Word by opening a document
You use the Word 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.
What’s your point, Dan?
My point is that you can also start Word by opening a Word document.
Simply locate the Word document icon (shown in the margin) in a folder
window. Double-click to open that document and Word starts up on the
screen, instantly (more or less) displaying that document for editing, reading,
modifying, perusing, cussing, mangling, and potentially fouling up beyond all
recognition.
✓ The Word document you open can be on the desktop, in the My
Documents or 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 elsewhere in this book.)
✓ In Windows 7, you can see a Jump List of recently opened documents by
either right-clicking the Word icon on the taskbar or clicking the right-
pointing arrow next to the Word icon on the Start button menu. Choose
a document from the list to start Word and open that document.
✓ Word is capable of opening other types of documents, including docu-
ments from previous versions of Word, Rich Text Format documents,
and others. Each of these documents has its own icon, though the icon
looks similar to the standard Word document icon. See Chapter 24 for
more information on opening alien documents in Word.
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