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Alright, welcome to this third chapter in our look at Office 2008. In this chapter, we will start to get up on our feet with Microsoft Word and this is, of course, our word processing application. Probably it's going to be one of the first applications you use if you are new to the Office 2008 suite and how we get going with this is we use, once again, the Project Gallery. Now, this should launch by default when you launch Office 2008 for the first time, but like with our look at PowerPoint, our introductory modules, we can set these items with the Preferences and if you haven't see the introductory modules for PowerPoint, that's ok. You can just go to the Word menu and click on Preferences and here we get a couple of options that you set about the Project Gallery and what happens when we open and even save documents. You can start with the general button here and notice also that the Preferences dialog box here looks different, so as I mentioned in the previous module or the previous chapter, you don't really get a consistent look and feel, but the items that you configure are generally the same. So here we are once again in the general section of our Word Preferences and here's the checkbox to be aware of. Show Project Gallery at startup. So whether or not that's checked will determine whether or not you get the Project Gallery. Now, if you don't get the Project Gallery, and here I'll have to press escape to make that go away. As you can see, my resolution didn't allow me to click on the button. But again, there's keyboard shortcuts to help you out if that's the case. Just hit the escape button on the keyboard. So again, we're back to opening up a new document. You can go to the File menu and choose New or you can open up the Project Gallery using this menu item right here. Or you can go here as well and you can create a new Word document and notice here that you have actually different options about the creation of a new document. You can either create a new blank publishing layout document or if you use the button in the toolbar on the far left, you can create a new blank document and in fact you have another option here called a blank notebook layout document. And we'll deal with the notebook layout in our advanced chapters as we deal with some of our power tips and tricks with your use of the applications. But for now, we want to focus mostly on these two; on either a new blank document or a new blank publishing layout document. And what you'll see in the toolbar will sometimes change. Here's what's significant about this. If you remember from our introductory chapter, I created this, and this is actually what I wanted to show you. I created this document using a template from the Project Gallery. So I did file, or I did effectively file, Project Gallery and then I was able to select from my list of pre-existing templates to create this. This is a restaurant menu. When I create this, it's a type of document called a publishing layout document and when I add new items to it, I will insert new pages, a new master page or a duplicate page, a duplicate of this page that I'm on right now. Contrast that with a new blank document and a new blank document, as you see up here, doesn't contain quite the same menu items that you see when you're dealing with that. So once again, I'll use the window to switch back over to document three, which you just opened up. This is the equivalent of a blank sheet of paper and you can simply do this from the Project Gallery as well to create a blank document, a blank Word document. But I'll cancel out of that. So now it's much more traditional word processing where you type information and the information, the words, the text, the letters fill the page and then when you've filled up one page, you go to another page and of course there's lots of ways to manipulate that, which is the purpose of this entire tutorial. So just a concluding thought here about the blank document versus the publishing layout document which I'm dealing with here. This looks much more at your documents as discreet pages which have placeholders for text. So you have a definite end result in mind. You might want to start with one of the templates for publication or, in other words, a publishing layout document and then you add, again, these discrete elements of pages and they'll be preformatted with some placeholder text. Otherwise it's a blank sheet of paper and that's, again, more than meets the eye with the simple task of opening a new document.