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Chapter 1 ✦ Getting Started with Word 2003

Figure 1-18: The Save As dialog box.

The next time you save your document, you won’t have to type a name, of course. Pressing

Ctrl+S will quickly save the file.

Get into the habit of pressing Ctrl+S frequently, to reduce the chance of losing work due to a

computer problem!

Word helps you to save and protect your documents in many ways. The option settings

determine how and when you save your documents. To see what options are available,

choose Tools➪ Options and then click the Save tab. You also can access the Save tab from

the Save As dialog box by choosing Tools➪ General Options. This lets you change the save

settings for the current document, allowing you, for example, to define how auto-recovery

works. (You can learn more about Word’s AutoRecover feature in Chapter 7.)

You can specify any given folder to be the one in which Word saves or opens documents. By

default, Word uses the My Documents folder. To change this, choose Tools ➪ Options and

click the File Locations tab. Select Documents, and then click Modify to select a new folder.

Saving a document as a Web page

Word 2003 provides a seamless interface for creating both Word (*.doc) and Web (*.htm) doc-

uments. Because the HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format is a native file format, you

can save any .doc file as an .htm file, and vice versa. Word saves the .doc formatting as well

as the .htm formatting. This allows you to create Web documents in Word for viewing in a

Web browser. Word also reads those documents back in for editing, however. When any Word

document is saved as a Web page, almost all the document’s information, including its con-

tent, formatting, and document properties, are retained in the HTML document.

Saving a document as a Web page is easy. Choose File ➪ Save as Web Page, which displays the

Save As dialog box with the .htm file name extension already selected. You can save the docu-

ment by clicking Save. Clicking Change allows you to change the page title for the document,

which appears on the title bar of the Web browser window. You also can save a Word docu-

ment as a Web page from the Save As dialog box, just as you would any other file format—

select the format from the Save As Type drop-down menu.

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