- [Instructor] Let's start from the beginning.
We're going to make a new document and see how to save it.
And in this video, we'll see how that's done
in Microsoft Word on Windows.
So on Windows we're going to go to the start menu
and launch Microsoft Word.
And when Word launches, you start at the welcome screen.
This is almost the same as the backstage view,
but the welcome screen does not have as many options
just because you don't have a document open yet.
Now on the left side, you could select home.
And then from here you could make a new blank document
or you could choose from one of these common templates.
Or you could choose new on the left side
and once again you could make a blank document
or you could choose from a much longer list of templates.
But let's just make a blank document.
I'll double click on that option.
That takes me to the new document.
And of course this big white space is the body
of the document.
And I can see the blinking cursor here waiting for me
to type something.
So I'm just going to type something into this document.
And then I'm just going to pause there.
So now I want to talk about saving the document.
If you need to close this and continue working on it later,
you need to save it as a file that you can access
and open at another time.
Now there's this thin bar all the way up at the top
and this is called the quick access toolbar.
And there's a shortcut button here to save your document,
it looks like a little floppy disk.
Or you can click file to go to the backstage view
and then you're looking for the options for save or save as.
Now, since this is a new document
that has not been saved yet.
At this point, both of these options do the same thing.
So, I'm just going to choose save.
And now you just have to do two things.
You need to choose where you're going to save the file
and you need to give it a name.
Now if you're signed into a Microsoft account,
you may see your OneDrive or SharePoint,
which are online storage tools
connected to your Microsoft account.
So you could save your file to one of those.
Or if you want to save this as a file on your computer
storage drive,
you could click where it says this PC
and choose from one of the recent folders you've used.
Or what I recommend is click where it says browse,
and then you get the traditional save window.
So, first I need to choose where I want to save the file.
So over here on the left.
I'll just choose the shortcut for my documents folder.
And then in this field, I need to give the file a name.
I'm going to call it office memo.
And that's all I need to do.
I gave it a location.
I gave it a name.
Then I can click save.
And now that file has been saved.
And up at the top, I can see the name of the file is there.
So now you can continue working on this document.
But when you make changes to the document later,
they will not be saved unless you save them.
So I'm going to make a quick change,
here I'm just going to add a little bit of text.
And then I need to update this file.
Now one quick way to do that would be to click the save
button in the quick access toolbar.
Or you can go back to the backstage view
by clicking on file.
And if you simply click save,
it will update the file that you already have open.
Or if you click save as, that lets you save a new file.
And that's what you should do if you want to keep the file
that you had open, but also save another duplicate version
of the file with the new changes that you just made
under a different name.
For now, I'm just going to click save
to update the existing file.
Now you may notice in the quick access toolbar,
there is an option for auto save.
And this is currently off,
because auto save is not available when you save files
on your computer storage drive.
You can only use it if you save your document
on OneDrive or SharePoint.
If you do that, you could come here and turn this on
and any changes you make will be saved automatically
as you go.
It's a very useful feature,
but only if you store your files on OneDrive or SharePoint.
And finally we started by launching Word,
but if you start with one document already open
and you want to keep it open,
but also make another new document.
You can just click file to go to the backstage view.
Then on the left you can click where it says new,
and then you can make a new blank document
or choose from one of the templates.
But I'll just make a new blank document.
And now I have that new document here,
but I also still have that other document open
in another window.
So if I move this window,
I can see that other document is still open there.
So if you're working in Windows,
that's how you can make a new document in Microsoft Word
and save it as a file.