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Part I ✦ The Fundamentals
Here’s a quick way to place the Word program on your desktop using a shortcut:
1. Minimize all programs so that you can see the Windows desktop.
2. Click the Start button to open the Windows Start menu.
3. Click the Programs submenu, and find the Microsoft Word menu option.
4. Point at the Word option in the Programs menu.
5. Press and hold down the left mouse button as you drag the icon off the menu and over
the desktop—don’t release it yet.
6. Press the Alt key, and you’ll see a little curved-arrow icon—the shortcut icon.
7. Release the mouse button, and a shortcut icon is placed on the desktop.
8. Release the Alt key.
You can also place this icon in the Quick Launch area of your Windows taskbar so that you
can start the program quickly by clicking the button there. (The taskbar is the bar on which
the Start menu sits.) Carry out the same dragging operation, but drop the icon onto the Quick
Launch area instead of on the desktop. Alternatively, you can drag the icon off the desktop
and drop it onto the Quick Launch area.
You can easily delete the Word shortcut by right-clicking the icon and choosing Delete.
If you upgraded from Office 2000, you may still have the Office Shortcut bar installed, which
gives you another way to start Word. If the Shortcut Bar is a feature that you like and use, you
already know about it, so we won’t waste time discussing it here. If you did a clean install of
Office 2003, you won’t see this feature.
Starting Word with Windows
If you want Word to run whenever you start Windows, add the Winword program file to the
Startup folder in the Start menu. To add Word to the Startup folder using Windows, follow
these steps:
1. Open the Windows Start menu.
2. Click the Programs submenu, and find the Word menu option.
3. Point at the menu option in the Programs menu.
4. Press and hold down the mouse button while you drag the icon off the menu and place
it over the Startup menu—don’t release it yet.
5. Press the Alt key, and you’ll see a little curved-arrow icon—the shortcut icon.
6. Release the mouse button, and a shortcut icon is placed in the Startup menu.
7. Release the Alt key.
Opening a Document from Word
After you create and save a document, the file exists on your disk. To use Word to make
changes to the file or to save a copy of it under a different name, you need to open that file.
Word provides several methods for opening files. The easiest is to click the Open button on
the Standard toolbar. Another is to choose File ➪ Open or press Ctrl+O. Both methods take
you to the Open dialog box, where you can locate the file that you want (see Figure 1-1).
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