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This introductory video gives an overview on how to start using MS Word 2013. You will learn how to open Word document and start creating a new document on a blank Word 2013 workspace. As soon as you're done working with your document, you will have an overview on how to save it either at your Skydrive, Computer or you may add another place and then you can close your document as well as MS Word by clicking the cross at the right end.

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on Word 2013. We’re now going to take our first look at Word and the first thing you need to do of course is to start it. Now I’m not going to spend a lot of time explaining the options here, I’ll just quickly go through them. I’m running this course using a Windows 8 PC and I have put a shortcut to Word in the middle of the desktop here and anytime I want to start Word, I’m going to double click on that with my mouse. If you’re using Windows 8 and you have Word 2013 installed, it should appear as one of the tiles on you Start Screen and you could tap or click on that.

And if you’re running Windows 7, Word 2013, once it’s installed, will appear on your Start Menu probably in the Office 2013 group on the Start Menu. I suggest that you give yourself a convenient and quick way of starting Word each time. Again, in Windows 8, I’ve got a shortcut for Word 2013 on my taskbar and I just click that anytime I want to start Word 2013.

Now when Word 2013 opens for the first time, you should see a screen similar to this one. And this screen enables you to do what are perceived to be the things you are most likely to want to do when you open Word. Now on the left there is a list with a heading Recent.

That may be completely empty. In fact, if this the first time you’ve used Word, it will be completely empty. If you’ve upgraded from an earlier version of Word, then you may well see a list of recently opened documents here instead. In this case, there are no recently opened documents, so the list is empty. But as we go ahead, we’ll see file names start to appear here. And opening a recently opened copy of a document is something you’ll do quite often with Word. So if I work on a particular document, say a letter to a business colleague, if I then close Word, go away, do something else, come back, I’ll see that letter in the list of recents here and that’s a very convenient way of accessing documents that you’ve worked on recently. We’ll come back to open other documents a little bit later on.

In the top right hand corner of the display here is my user name, and in this case details of the Microsoft account that I use in relation to Windows 8 on this device. And then in the middle, we have the main area we’re going to concentrate on at first. If you look at these thumbnails, that one has a caption Blank Document that one has a caption Welcome to Word and the others correspond to what are called Templates. Now we’re going to look at templates in some detail later on, but let’s assume that the first thing I want to do is to create a document in Word, which is what we’re going to do in this section. And actually in this section, we’re going to start with a blank document. But as we’ll see in a little while if you wanted to start with a document where a lot of the layout, a lot of the style is already established for you, you can use one of the provided Word 2013 templates. Now if you look at these thumbnails, you’ll see that there’s quite a reasonable list of these templates here.

There are quite a few. There’s some Christmas related ones there, various ones celebrating different events, and so on. But in fact there are many, many more than this and the section at the top enables us to search for online templates. So for instance if I wanted a template to use for a fax, I could type Fax in here and then do a search online for a fax related template.

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