HOW TO OPEN FILE IN WORD
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 grayed out.
The reason that the
Open button is grayed 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:

You can see also that
we are in the folder called My Documents. To open up the folder we want, simply
double click it. This will take us inside the My WP Projects:
The whole Open
dialogue box now looks like this:

The file we want,
Library Letter, has been clicked on. As a result, the Open button is no longer
grayed out. We can go ahead and click it. When we do, our letter will open in
Microsoft Word.
To recap then on how
to open a file. Do the following
· Navigate to the folder
where the file was saved
· Click on the file to
select it
· Click the Open button
OK, now that you know
how to Open a file, we can start adding the address to our letter.























