How to Open a file

1. In your Microsoft Office program, click File, and then click Open.
2. In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file you want to open.
3. In the folder list, locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4. Click the file, and then click Open.

Open a file as a copy

1. In your Office program, click File, and then click Open.
2. In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file you want to open.
3. In the folder list, locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4. Select the file you want to open a copy of. Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open as Copy.

Note  When you open a file as a copy, a new copy of the file is created in the folder that contains the original file.

Open a file as read-only

1. In your Office program, click File, and then click Open.
2. In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or Internet location that contains the file you want to open.
3. In the folder list, locate and open the folder that contains the file.
4. Select the file you want to open a copy of. Click the arrow next to the Open button, and then click Open Read-Only.

Tips

• You can create a shortcut to a folder on a network file server or Web server, use My Network Places.
• The Getting Started task pane (task pane: A window within an Office application that provides commonly used commands. Its location and small size allow you to use these commands while still working on your files.) displays a list of the last few files that you most recently opened. Click on the file name to open it.
• The My Recent Documents folder in the Open dialog lists the previous files and folders that you have opened.