Office 2010 Made Simple

Creating and Saving a New Document

To create a new document in Word, you use the New pane in Backstage view as you learned in Chapter 1: “Meeting the Office Programs and Learning What They Do.” As you can see in Figure 7–1, you can create a document in six main ways using the templates on your PC:

• Blank document. This document has no contents, so you can create whichever type of document you need. But often, you can create a document quicker by using one of Word's templates to insert part of the content for you.
• Blog post. This document is set up to help you quickly create a blog post and publish it to your blog.
• Document based on a template you've used recently. Clicking Recent templates gives you quick access to templates you've used for your ...