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Chances are good that your small business handles a lot of documents -- most do. That's why being able to access them as efficiently as possible is important. You probably know at least one or two ways to open Microsoft Word on your PC, but there are a few you may not know.
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Click the Start button. Type 'word' without quotation marks into the search box. Click 'Microsoft Word 2010' in the list that appears.
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Click the Start button. Hover the mouse pointer over 'All Programs.' Scroll down to the Microsoft Office folder and click it. Select 'Microsoft Word 2010.'
3.Press the Windows key and 'R' on the keyboard at the same time to bring up the Run dialogue. Type 'WinWord.exe' without quotation marks into the box.
4.Right-click on an empty area of the Windows 7 desktop. Hover the mouse pointer over 'New' in the menu that appears. Click 'Shortcut.' Type or copy and paste 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14WINWORD.EXE' into the box. Click 'Next.' Type 'Word' into the box and click 'Finish.' Double-click the Word shortcut that appears on the desktop to launch Word.
5.Open an MS Word file on your computer by double-clicking it. If you are asked to choose an application to open the file with, select 'Microsoft Word.' You may close the file you have opened if you do not want to use it now and open another one instead.
Tip
- The default installation folder for Microsoft Office is 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft Office.' If you or your system administrator chose another folder when installing Office, substitute that folder in the file path when creating a shortcut. For example, if you installed Office to 'D:MSOffice,' the correct path to Word would be 'D:MSOfficeOffice14WINWORD.EXE.'
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Based in New England, Azrael von Kohler has been writing and editing since 2000. Von Kohler has worked on technical and educational projects, including a guide to Linux system administration, and was the technical editor on leading role-playing game franchises, including Dungeon Crawl Classics. He specializes in technology with an emphasis on its application to free and open culture.
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