How do you save a word document in a disk file
- To save the document that we have typed in a disk file, we need to use the file/ save command. We can use this command in three different ways:
- select the save command from the file menu.
- Click the save button on the standard tool bar.
- Press ctrl S, the keyboard short keys for the file save command.
- Move the mouse pointer on ‘file’ in the menu bar and click the primary mouse button.
- Press and hold alt and then press f.’F’ is the underline letter in the menu pad ‘file’ (the underline letter is also called as the hot key)
- Press Alt to activate the menu system. Use the arrow key to move the highlight cursor on ‘file’ in the menu bar. Then press enter key word opens the file menu.
- Move the mouse pointer on the save command and click the left mouse button
- Press ‘s’-in the hot key for the save command
- Use the up/down arrow keys to move the highlight cursor on the save document. After positioning the highlight cursor on the save command, press Enter key.
1st Method:opening the file menu:
We can use the following steps to open the file menu
after opening the file menu, select the save command from this menu. We can select the save command in several ways such as
When we select the save command, word displays a dialogue box, to assign a file name at the document we are typing to save. Beside the file name, we can also select the drive and folder, to save the file. The file name that we want to assign to the document should be typed in the file name box.
Some times, the ‘word’ itself assigns a file name, we can use to same file name or delete the name by selecting with the mouse to retype a new name word automatically adds the extension ‘doc’ to the document files. Then click the save button or press enter key to save the word document in the disk.
2nd Method:
Move the mouse pointer to the save icon present on the tool bar and press the left button of the mouse to save the document. The ‘word’ displays a dialogue box to assign a name to the document. Type the next in the name box and click to ‘save’ button to save file.


