- [Instructor] Well at some point, you'll want to create
your own documents in Microsoft Word 2019
and save your work.
There are number of different options to explore.
That's what we're going to do right now.
If you close up the file you were working with as I did
in the previous movie, you're left with this blank screen.
Let's go up to File, because that's where we go
to create new document.
Select New here on the left hand side.
This gives you access to a number of templates.
And as you can see, there are featured templates
selected down below including the first one.
A blank document allows you to start from scratch
but there are a number of other featured templates
that will give you a head start creating things
like resumes, cover letters, blog posts, reports and so on.
There are also hundreds and thousands of templates online
that you can search for
either using the different suggested search categories,
business, event, education, et cetera,
or by clicking in the search field and simply typing.
But we're gonna start from scratch
by choosing blank document.
One click is going to start your new document
using the blank template
that does have its own default settings.
For example, you can see a cursor flashing here
on this blank page about an inch down from the top
and an inch from the left.
The default margin sets you one inch all the way around.
We're ready now to start typing.
Notice up to the top,
it simply says Document and then a number.
Until we save our document and give it a name,
that's what you're going to see at the top.
So let's type in something like Tech Connect right there
and press Enter to go down to the next line.
Suddenly we've made changes.
And if we were to close this up,
we'd be prompted to save those changes.
There are different ways to save
and different Save options when doing so.
Let's check them out.
I go up to File.
From here, you'll see two options, Save and Save As.
Save is really just update, updating changes made
to your document that's already been saved.
But, if it has not been saved, and ours is not,
you'll go directly to Save As when you click Save.
Go ahead, give Save a click.
You can see how Save As is highlighted.
We first need to give this a name
and choose a location to save it.
You'll notice down the left hand side, different locations.
You may see a different list than this
if you're connected to SharePoint drives for example,
in your organization network drives and so on.
You can always use Browse as well to browse to a location
or go to a recent location.
For example, if I want to save this to the Desktop,
it's one of my recent locations.
If you don't see that, click Browse
and browse to the Desktop,
find it on the left hand side here at the top.
Now down below is where we type in our file name
but you'll notice that something is
entered for you automatically.
This is content that was typed in on that first line
of our blank page, Tech Connect.
If you're happy with that, all you have to do is click Save.
If you're not, just go in here to make changes to it.
I'm gonna go in here, click after Connect
and add some numbers, 0102.
Down below you can see the default Save as type option
appears to be a Word Document with the docx extension.
That's the XML base extension that has been around
for several previous versions of Microsoft Word
and continues to be the default.
But, if you wanted to save you at different type,
you can click this, it is a drop down,
and see a number of different options
like saving to older Word Documents.
You're gonna be sharing this document with somebody
and you're not sure if you have the latest version
of Microsoft Word.
They might be working with an older version, '97 to 2003,
you can save it to that older format.
You can save it to a PDF file.
You can even save it to Web formats like HTML.
Plain text formats as well.
We're gonna leave it as Word Document.
So with our location selected and our name,
all we have to do now is click save.
And we know it saved because up here at the top
on the title bar, we see that name now
instead of document and a number,
we see the name of our file Tech Connect0102.
Now we can continue adding to our document
and simply updating it with that Save option.
So let's type in something like this.
I'm gonna hit the Caps Lock key on my keyboard
and type in Connecting you to the latest technology
and insider insights.
Press Enter after that as well.
So we've made changes to our document which has been saved.
We can now go up to File
and click Save.
We won't see Save As this time.
It's simply updated and saved with our new changes.
The other option is to go directly to this area
in the top left corner known as the Quick Access toolbar.
The very first button that appears here
by default is the Save button.
Clicking this will also update your file with those changes.
You may have noticed too hovering over that,
there's a keyboard shortcut Control + S
if you prefer to use that.
Either way our document has been saved
and we're ready to move on or close it up if we're finished.
Let's go up to File and choose Close.
If we're not prompted to save changes,
we know that they were saved
and it's stored in the location we specify,
in our case, the Desktop.