Practical No. 1: Create or save new file or document. -

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Computer Practicals For Class IX

Activity No.1

PRACTICAL NO. 1:
CREATE AND SAVE NEW FILE OR DOCUMENT
Every Word project you create whether it’s a personal letter, a TV sitcom script, or a thesis in microbiology begins and ends the same way. You start by creating a document, and you end by saving your work.

• Opening a Word document:
  Once you’ve created some Word documents, this method is fastest of all, since you don’t have to start Word as a separate step. Just open an existing Word document, and Word starts itself.
  Try going to Start → My Recent Documents, and then, from the list of files, choose a Word document. You can also double-click the document’s icon on the desktop or wherever it lives on your PC.

Creating a New Blank Document

Say you want a new blank document, just like the one Word shows you when you start the program. No problem here are the steps:

1. Choose Office button → New.
   The New Document dialog box appears.
   To open the New Document window. Then click
   “New from existing”
   
   
2. In the upper-left corner of the large
   “Create a new Word document”
   panel, click “Blank document”.
   
   The New Document box presents a seemingly endless number of options, but don’t panic. The “Blank document” option you want is on the left side of the first line.
   
   
3. At the bottom of the New Document dialog box,
   Click Create.
   
   The dialog box disappears, and you’re gazing at the blank page of a new Word document.

Saving and Closing Documents

From the earliest days of personal computing, the watchword has been “save early, save often.” So, here are some tips to protect your work from disasters human made and natural.

• Name and save your document shortly after you first create it. You’ll see the steps to do so later in this section.
• Get in the habit of doing a quick save with the short key Ctrl+S, when you pause to think. Ctrl+S still works for a quick save too.
• If you’re leaving your computer for an extended period of time, save and close your document.

Save Documents

Saving by keyboard shortcut:

• Ctrl+S. If you’re an old hand at Word, this keyboard shortcut may already be burned in your brain. This command quickly saves the document and lets you get back to work.

Saving by menu command:

• Office button → Save: If you don’t want to use keyboard shortcuts, you can mouse your way to the same place using menus. Like the options above, this command saves your file with its current name.
  
  
• Office button → Save As: The Save As option lets you save your file with a new name. When you use this command, you create a new document with a new name that includes any changes you’ve made.
  
  
• Office button → Close: When you close a document, Word checks to see if you’ve made any changes to the file. When you’ve made changes, Word always asks whether you’d like to save the document.

By Miss Shabana Sheikh And

By Sir Sajjad Akber Chandio