Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac Step by Step

Practice Opening, Saving, and Closing Office Files

In this exercise, you’ll practice opening, saving, and closing Office files by using a variety of methods. You’ll open an existing Word document and save it with a new name; open a copy of an existing Excel workbook and save the copy in the same folder; and then open an existing PowerPoint presentation in read-only mode and save an editable version in a different folder. Finally, you’ll close the files and quit the programs.

Note

SET UP This exercise uses the BookSeries document, the CompanyMeeting presentation, and the Loan workbook, located in the ~/Documents/Microsoft Press/2008OfficeMacSBS/OfficeSkills/ folder.

1. Start Word.

   The Word menu bar appears at the top of the screen, and a temporary document ...