Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Practice Creating and Populating Documents

In this exercise, you’ll create a new document, look at the information already contained in the document, and then add content to it by typing and by inserting the contents of an external file.

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SET UP You’ll create your own practice file in this exercise, and also use the AnnouncePlanner document located in th ~/Documents/Microsoft Press/2008OfficeMacSBS/CreateDocuments/ folder. Quit Word if it’s running, so we can start from scratch.

1. Start Word.

   When Word starts, a temporary document named Document1 opens in the default Print Layout view. Blank documents created during each program session are numbered consecutively, regardless of the document type.

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