If a program isn’t already running, you can start the program and simultaneously open an existing file by double-clicking the file in Windows Explorer. While a program is running, you can open an existing document from the Backstage view. If you have recently worked on the document you want to open, you can display the Recent page and simply click the document you want in the list. If the document is not available on the Recent page, clicking Open in the left pane displays the Open dialog box.
By default, the Open dialog box displays your Documents library, with a combined view of your My Documents folder and the Public Documents folder. If you display the dialog box again in the same Word session, it displays the contents of the folder from which you last opened a file. To display the contents of a different folder, you can use the standard Windows techniques described in “Creating and Saving Files” earlier in this chapter.
After you locate the document you want to work with, you can open it by clicking its file name and then clicking Open in the lower-right corner of the dialog box, or by simply double-clicking the file name.
If you open a document that is too long to fit entirely on the screen, you can bring off-screen content into view without changing the location of the cursor by using the vertical scroll bar in the following ways:
# Click the scroll arrows to move up or down by one line.
# Click above or below the scroll box to move up or down by the height of one window.
# Drag the scroll box on the scroll bar to display the part of the document corresponding to the location of the scroll box.
For example, dragging the scroll box to the middle of the scroll bar displays the middle of the document.
If the document is too wide to fit on the screen, Word displays a horizontal scroll bar that you can use in similar ways to move from side to side.
You can also move around in a document by moving the cursor. To place the cursor in a specific location, you simply click there. To move the cursor one page backward or forward, you click the Previous Page and Next Page buttons below the vertical scroll bar.
You can also press a keyboard key to move the cursor. For example, pressing the Home key moves the cursor to the left end of a line.
The following table lists ways to use your keyboard to move the cursor.
In a long document, you might want to move quickly among elements of a certain type; for example, from graphic to graphic. Clicking the Select Browse Object button at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar displays a gallery of browsing options, such as Browse By Page and Browse By Graphic. (These options are also available on the Go To tab of the Find And Replace dialog box, which you display by clicking the Find arrow in the Editing group of the Home tab and then clicking Go To.) You can also display the Navigation task pane and move from heading to heading or page to page.
Keyboard Shortcut Press Ctrl+G to display the Go To tab of the Find And Replace dialog box. If more than one document is open, you can close the active document without exiting Word by clicking the Close button at the right end of the title bar. If only one document is open, clicking the Close button closes the document and also exits Word. If you want to close that document but leave Word running, you must click Close in the Backstage view.
