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Opening, closing, and reading documents

Opening, closing, and reading documents - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Opening, closing, and reading documents

As we continue to get comfortable with the user interface here in Word 2013, let's open up a document to take it a step further. To do that, we go to the File tab. Next, we'll make sure Open is selected. Now, from here, you can actually access recent documents quickly and easily from the Recent Documents list. If it's your first time using Word, of course, there won't be anything on this list. We're going to the exercise files, and we haven't actually opened up any of them yet, so that means we have to choose another option. Notice the next option; the next default is your SkyDrive. If you're already logged in to your Microsoft account, you'll see your name followed by SkyDrive. This is a great way to store files on the cloud, and then have easy, anywhere access to those files from any device. But we're going to our computer, and here's where we go to browse, not just our own standalone computer, but any network connections as well. This is the old way of opening files. So, we'll…

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