Microsoft Word 2013 Tutorials
Working with Files / Saving Locally and Changing File Type
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In this lesson let's talk about saving a file just locally to our computer, maybe you don't need to use Skydrive or you're not using that option. And let's also talk about the file types that you can save things as. If I go over to File and do a Save As and this time I choose My Computer, I can choose specific folders that I've used before or I can browse for an area. Notice I can pin this folder so it stays there on top, notice the little line below it? I can pin those folders or I can click on them and it'll open it up so I can save a file right there. I can pin a second one, those stay on top. So I can easily get to them. Let's say I want to browse and I want to go to my Desktop and we'll call this Local File. I've got it saved, there's my filename and I can hit the Save Button or Control S and it automatically saves my changes. Now that one is not going to go out to my Skydrive. I just have it saved on my local computer. If I go to File, Save As, the other thing I can do, say I want to put it on my desktop again, I can change the type. I can choose a different Word type. Word has a .DOC extension, the old type if you want to use that. A Word template has a .DOTX extension. The macro enabled is .DOTM, we've got PDF. If you're questioning what to save it in, everybody has the ability to open up a PDF Portable Document Format, that's always a good one. Here's your web pages those are .HTM, plain text is .TXT. Anybody can open those, it strips out all of your formatting though. Got your XMLs, you got your open document format which is ODT and you've got your Works which is your WPS. Let me show you what something like plain text does. Let's say we go in here and do that. Type a heading, change that and I'm going to save this as a plain text file and show you what that does. It tells me right here that it's going to cause all formatting pictures et cetera to be lost. I'll click OK and I'm going to close out. As you can see, here is my Word file that I saved it as local file. Here's the plain text one. If I double-click that it opens up automatically in just a plain text editor like Notepad. If I double-click local file that was a Word file type, so it's going to open it automatically in my Word 2013. The other option that I want to show you that I would use a lot if you're ever questioning what to save it as if you have a lot of people that need to read it or maybe you're going to post it on the web, is PDF. Save it as PDF file, hit Save and there is the PDF. I'll close out of it and I'll show you the icon here, there's the icon for a PDF file. Now the other thing I want to show you is you can save without going to backstage view. Let's say you only need to save your files to your local computer. You don't care about when it says File Save As. You don't care about all these options, you're not using maybe SharePoint, you're not using Skydrive. You just want to save it to your local computer each time. So what you can do is go down to Options, go to the Save Tab there and right where it says Don't Show the Backstage When Opening or Saving Files right here, that's what you check. Just check that and then you won't have to go through all those different selections. So you can save locally to your computer, you can save to Skydrive and you can change that file type.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Word 2013 |
| Author: | Melanie Hedgespeth |
| SKU: | 34401 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-087-9 |
| Release Date: | 2013-01-18 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 147 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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