Opening Microsoft Word
Documents
We'll shortly add an address to the top of our Library Complaint letter. Before we do
that, we'll learn how to open a file. After all, you might have closed down
Microsoft Word, or your computer might have crashed. The result being that you
no longer have your library letter loaded into Word. So here's how to Open a
file you have saved, and want to work on again.
From
the File menu, click Open:
The
Open dialogue box appears, and looks like the image below:
The
Open dialogue box looks very similar to the Save As dialogue box. "Save
in", "File name", and "Files of type" work in exactly
the same way as the Save As dialogue box. Notice, though that the File name
text box is blank, and the Open button is not available. It has been greyed
out.
The
reason that the Open button is greyed out, and therefore not available, is that
text box is empty. Once you select a file, the Open button will be ready for
us.
But
the text box is empty because no file has been selected. A file is selected
from the larger white area in the middle. Clicking on the file once with the
left hand mouse button will select a file. In the previous image, there was
only one file available for selection - a document called
"rrKeyCaps.doc". That is not the one we want.
To
locate the file we want, we need to open the folder called "My WP
Projects". Because that's where we saved it. You can see from the image
that this folder is in the list of folders, just below the folder called My
Pictures:
