File, New

Quick reference

• 00:04 I want to talk to you about the File ribbon.
• 00:06 There's some great information in here.
• 00:08 One of them is the new section.
• 00:11 So when I click on File, it gives me this blue banner, and
• 00:14 a lot of times we'll go straight to open to get our files.
• 00:17 But if you take a look at the word New and click on that one,
• 00:21 there are thousands of pre-formatted templates that you can use.
• 00:25 Absolutely no copyright infringement, not royalties, do it all,
• 00:29 just use these as you find you need them.
• 00:32 This is why we have a subscription in Microsoft,
• 00:34 'cause we get access to these great templates.
• 00:37 Now I wanna focus on the business because maybe I'd like to write a business letter.
• 00:41 And I don't have any letterhead pre-designs,
• 00:44 I'm gonna find something in here.
• 00:46 I'm gonna have to go right over here and hit Letters, so
• 00:49 I'm not seeing envelopes or forms, I just want business letters.
• 00:53 Now I can scroll, scroll,
• 00:54 scroll until I find something that I think looks professional.
• 00:57 So let's see this one, this looks great.
• 01:00 I'm gonna go ahead and click on this particular letter.
• 01:03 And I'm going to hit Create and here it opens up.
• 01:06 I'll move that onto my screen so you can see it.
• 01:09 All right, now notice right over here it has my name,
• 01:13 a Company Name, a Company Address, it's prompting you to change these things.
• 01:17 Showing you where this information should go, you should just change, and
• 01:20 I noticed I'm not clicking and dragging these.
• 01:22 When I click once, it highlights the little field.
• 01:25 These are preformatted fields.
• 01:27 And you could just start typing in there, today's date or whatever.
• 01:30 They might be questioning how does it know my name?
• 01:32 Well, when I click on the File ribbon again, File, I'm on the Info section.
• 01:37 And take a look right over here, my name is already registered to
• 01:41 this Microsoft Word, so that's where I got my name from, right?
• 01:45 I can change that if I want or continue finishing typing my name.
• 01:49 And notice, right in here, you have all the,
• 01:52 you can reformat the text of this, whatever you want.
• 01:55 But the beauty is I'm going to hit the print preview button which is right over
• 01:59 here, the quick print.
• 02:00 When I hit quick print, I better Cancel that, I wanted the print preview.
• 02:04 So I better go to File and Print, here we go.
• 02:08 This is what it will look like when I print this, okay?
• 02:11 That's a great letter, I would be proud to send that letter out.
• 02:14 But not so fast, let's go ahead and find a new one, I'm gonna close this.
• 02:20 Don't save, I'm gonna go back to File and New, and
• 02:24 this time let's say you're looking for a job, and you want to type a resume.
• 02:29 And you have no idea how to format a resume, well, guess what?
• 02:32 Microsoft Word does.
• 02:33 So in here, here are all the resumes.
• 02:36 You just choose which one you want to submit.
• 02:39 And believe me, HR departments are never going to turn away your resume
• 02:43 because you used a Microsoft template.
• 02:44 In fact, they'll probably be very proud of you for using a template.
• 02:48 I'll go ahead and click on this one, hit Create, and
• 02:51 now look at on in the screen, here we go.
• 02:53 You just go ahead and replace your name, your script and
• 02:57 your education history, and your work history.
• 02:59 Just replace it in here and then submit it.
• 03:02 Now's your choice, you can print it and mail it,
• 03:06 or Save it as a PDF and upload it.
• 03:08 So just so you know, be proud of the work you do, and
• 03:11 let Microsoft help you with that work.
• 03:14 All those templates again are found under File, New, and
• 03:18 it is really fun looking through there.

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