Office 2013 In Depth

Creating and Managing Files

The Office 2013 applications provide you with different ways to create new files. When you open one of the Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, you are taken to the Start screen. The Start screen (which is new in Office 2013) enables you to create a new blank file (such as a new blank document in Word), open files from the Recent list, or take advantage of a huge library of themes and templates.

Note

Everything that you create in the Office applications is based on a template. Each application has a default template. For example, in Word, the default template is the Normal template and is used ...