Detailed Guides: Document Storage and Printing

Chapter 5. Detailed Guides: Document Storage and Printing

This section of the documentation will cover everything you need to know about starting a new document, saving a document, retrieving a saved document and printing a document.

Beginning a New Document

Starting a new document can be done 5 ways:

However you begin a new document, a dialog box appears:



This dialog box allows you to:

KWord remembers your previous choice. That previous choice will be the current default option.

Tip

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts:

New document from a templateAlt+T
Open a recent documentAlt+R
Start and Empty documentAlt+E

If you use the keyboard shortcuts, you will need to press Enter on the keyboard or click OK to confirm your selection.

Starting a new document from a template

In order to start a new document based on a template, you must first choose your template.

Remember templates are either Text Oriented or Page Layout templates. If you need to review the differences, click here.

You can use the tabs labled Text Oriented and Page Layout to display all the available templates of that group.

Once you are on the correct tab, you are shown all the available templates, each with a title and a small icon which shows you the general layout of the template.

Tip

KWord comes with two standard template groups. You can add new tabs by installing outside templates, or creating templates of your own.

To select your template, click on it with the left button. The selected template will be highlighted. Confirm your choice by clicking the OK button. This will begin a new document with that template.

Tip

For faster access to a template, simply double click on the template, and KWord will immediately load that template.

Open an existing document

Click on the Choose button, and an new dialog box is revealed. For more details on this dialog box refer to Using the file selection dialog.

Open a Recent Document

KWord keeps track of the most recently edited documents. You can select one of these documents by using the drop-down box to the right of the radio button labeled Open a recent document.

Once the filename is selected in this drop down box, click on OK and KWord will load the template.

Note

If you delete or move a file, it will still appear in the drop down list.

If you select a deleted or otherwise unavailable file to be opened by KWord, the OK will turn from black to gray. This indicates you will not be able to open that file.

Loading an Empty Document

This begins a new document in Text Oriented Mode, with one frame per page. This is an excellent choice for every day correspondence, or general word processing. Simply click OK to begin.

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