Word 2019 For Dummies

Chapter 8

Documents New, Saved, and Opened

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding terms

Creating a new document

Saving documents

Updating (resaving) a document

Opening a document

Inserting one document inside another

Retrieving a lost document

I like the word document. It’s elegant. It’s much better than saying “a file” or “that thing I created with my word processor.” A document could include everything from a quick shopping list to a vast cycle of medieval fantasy novels you keep reading despite knowing that your favorite protagonist will die a sudden, horrific death.

Regardless of size or importance, a word processing file is called a document. It’s the end result of your efforts in Word. You create new documents, save them, open up old documents, and close documents. That’s the document ...