Chapter 8
Documents New, Saved, and Opened
IN THIS CHAPTER
Learning the 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 can include everything from a quick shopping list to a vast cycle of medieval fantasy novels you keep reading despite knowing that the TV version didn’t end so well.
Regardless of size or importance, a word processing file is called a document. It’s the result of your efforts in Word. You create new documents, save them, open old documents, and close documents. This is the document cycle.
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