Opening and Viewing Existing Documents

Opening and Viewing Existing Documents

After you save a document as a file, you can open the document again at any time. To open an existing document, you can use the Getting Started task pane. To create a new document based on an existing one, you can use the New Document task pane. This is useful when you want to take existing text and use it in a new document without changing the original document.

You can also open a document by clicking the Open button on the Standard toolbar.

When you open a document, a program button with the Word program icon and the document’s name appears on the taskbar. You can have many documents open at the same time, ...

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