The Open command can be invoked 4 ways:
By clicking Open a previously saved document and the Choose button when Opening a New Document
By selecting File->Open from the menubar
You can use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-O
or by clicking
on the toolbar.
Any of these methods results in the same action by KWord.
When trying to open a file, a dialog appears.
For more information on using this dialog, see the section entitled Using the file dialog.
Use this dialog to locate the document you want to load. Once located, click once with the left mouse button on the filename. Click OK. The file will be loaded.
There is a Cancel button, if you click this button, the load will be aborted.