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Saving documents

Saving documents - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Saving documents

Nobody wants to lose their hard work, so saving is extremely important here in Word 2013. There are number of different options to explore, so let's do that using our Identity Branding and Style Guide document. First of all, you'll notice on the quick access toolbar the icon representing a floppy disk. That is your Save button. That's the fastest way to update changes. Also, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S will do the same thing. So, if you're updating a document that's already been given a name, and has been saved at least once, you'll be updating those changes. For example, here in our document, clicking this button will update any changes we may have made. Now, if we are going to be creating a document from scratch, or if we want to choose a different name, or a location, for example, we need something called Save As, and we access that from the File tab. Clicking that takes us to the backstage, where we can click Save As. Now, from here you're going to see certain defaults. Right at…

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