But opening a copy is a convenient way of leaving an electronic paper trail of your work. Most of the time, you’ll open the original and get to work. Original opens the document itself Copy opens a copy, leaving the original untouched and Read-Only opens the document but doesn’t let you make changes to it. This pop-up menu lets you choose one of the three different ways Word can open the same document. This list includes the folders that you’ve recently visited-handy stuff for accessing commonly used folders. You may then browse its contents in the center panel. The pop-up menu underneath the Enable pop-up menu lets you quickly select a folder. It was intended to rescue usable prose from a corrupted Word document, of course, but it means what it says: any file.įolder Selection Menu. It lets you extract recognizable text from any file and place it into a new window. Then double-click the document icon to open it.ĭon’t miss the “Recover text from any file” option listed in this pop-up menu it’s a spectacular tool. Opening any kind of document in the Project Gallery works the same way: Click the list items in the Category list on the left until you see the desired template or document type on the right. If you click Open (or press Return or Enter) now, a new blank Word document opens, just as if you’d chosen File → New Blank Document (or pressed ⌘-N). When the Project Gallery opens, the Word Document icon is highlighted, as shown in Figure 1-1. Your choices include brochures, spreadsheets, and even email messages. The Project Gallery is your entry point to the many types of documents Office 2008 (not just Word) is equipped to handle. Use the three buttons in the upper-left corner to switch between icon view, list view, and list view with preview. When you wish to open another new document, just open the Project Gallery again by choosing File → Project Gallery or pressing Shift-⌘-P. Figure 1-1. The Project Gallery opens automatically when you first launch Word.
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