Getting to Know Backstage View in Word 2010
Backstage View is the part of Word that brings together every command affecting your whole document or the Word program itself. Open it by clicking the File tab. From there you can save a document, open a new one, close the document you are working on, look over its details, and even change some of those details. It also lets you review a list of documents you worked on recently, start a brand-new document, print the current one, save and send it, or call up help whenever a task in Word leaves you stuck.
Word Options: Settings for Your Whole Document
Word Options opens a separate window filled with commands that give you a good deal of control over how your document looks and how you edit it. The video tutorials will dig into these commands in more depth as you go; for now, this short overview should be enough to get you oriented.
Getting Out of Backstage View
To demonstrate how to exit, let's head back into Backstage View. You have a couple of options from here: click any tab on the ribbon — the File tab again, for example, or the Page Layout tab. And the next time you open Backstage View, you can also just press the Escape key on your keyboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
Next: Creating a blank document
Home The RibbonBackstage View keeps the everyday tasks — saving, opening, printing, and sharing — in one place behind the File tab, so you spend less time hunting through the ribbon. Once you know where these commands live, moving between Backstage View and the ribbon tabs becomes second nature.