- [Instructor] Let's start from the beginning
and see how to make a new document
and how to save it if you're working on a Mac.
Now, if you have Word in the doc,
you can launch it from there.
Or you could go to the launchpad, and find Word,
and launch it from there.
When Word launches, you start at the welcome screen.
And this is almost the same
as the welcome screen on Windows.
On the left, you can select Home.
And then you could open a new blank document,
or you could choose from one of these common templates,
or you could click New on the left side.
And once again, you could start with a new blank document.
Or here, you just have a much larger list of templates,
but let's start a new blank document.
I'll double-click on that.
And of course,
this big white space is the body of my document.
I can see the blinking cursor there
waiting for me to type something.
So I'm just going to type in a little bit.
And I'll pause there.
And I want to talk about saving the document.
So 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, this thin bar across the top of the window
is called the Quick Access Toolbar.
And there is a nice little shortcut here
to save your document.
It looks like an old-style floppy disk.
Or you can go to the File menu
and you're looking for the option 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 basically the same thing.
So I'm just going to choose Save.
So now, you need to do two things.
You need to choose where you're going to save your file
and you need to give it a name.
Now, you'll see there's a button here to toggle
between Online Locations and On My Mac.
And you can toggle back and forth between those.
Now, if you go to Online Locations
and if you are signed into a Microsoft account,
you could save your document
to one of Microsoft's cloud storage tools,
like OneDrive or SharePoint.
But I'm going to choose On My Mac so I can store
it on the storage drive on my computer.
And you may want to click
this downward pointing arrow button right here
to expand this window.
And then, once again, you just need to choose a location.
I'm just going to store this in my Documents folder.
And then you need to give it a name
by typing it into that field right here.
Once you've done that, you can just click the Save button.
And your document has been saved.
And you can continue working on it.
But when you make a change to your document,
those changes will not be saved to that file,
unless you save them.
So I'm just going to make a quick change here.
I'm going to add a little bit of text.
And then you could click that Save button
in the Quick Access Toolbar to just update that file.
Or you could go back to the File menu.
And once again, you could click Save there.
Or you could choose Save As,
which will let you save a new file.
And this is what you should do if you want to keep
the file that you had open,
but save another duplicate version of the file
with new changes under a different name.
But for now, I'm just going to click Save,
which will update the current file that I had open.
Now, you may notice that there is an option
in the Quick Access Toolbar for AutoSave.
This is off because AutoSave is not available
when you save files on your computer's storage drive.
You can only use it if you save your documents
on OneDrive or SharePoint.
Then you could turn this on.
And any changes you make will be saved automatically
as you go.
It's a very useful feature
if you store your files on OneDrive.
And finally, we started by launching Word,
but if you start with one document already open
and you want to keep it open,
you can make another new document
just by going to the File menu.
And you can choose New Document
to start with a new blank document.
Or you can choose New From Template
to start from a template.
I'll just choose New Document.
And now, I have this new document.
And that other one is still open there in another window.
So now, you can make a new document in Word
and save it as a file.