# Chapter 6. Detailed Guides: Document Storage and Printing

This section of the documentation will cover everything you need to know about starting a new document, saving a document, retrieving a saved document and printing a docuemnt.

# 6.1. Beginning a New Document

Starting a new document can be done 5 ways:

- You can start KWord from the KDE Panel.

- You can start KWord from the command line by typing

       $ kword &

- You can begin a new document in KWord by selecting File->New from the Menu bar

- You can use the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-N

- or by clicking on the toolbar.

However you begin a new document, a dialog box appears:

This dialog box allows you to:

- Start a New document from a template

- Open a previously saved document

- Start an "Empty" document.(default)

| You can use the following keyboard shortcuts: New document from a template (Alt-T), Open a previous document (Alt-O), or Start and Empty document (Alt-E) If you use the keyboard shortcuts, you will need to press Enter on the keyboard or click "OK" to confirm your selection.

Starting a new document from a template

In order to start a new document based on a template, you must first choose your template.

Remember templates are either Wordprocessing or DTP templates. If you need to review the differences, click here.

You can use the tabs labled "Wordprocessing" and "DTP" to display all the available templates of that group.

Once you are on the correct tab, you are shown all the available templates, each with a title and a small icon which shows you the general layout of the template.

To select your template, click on it with the left button. This will begin a new document with that template.

| If you click on the template with the right button, the template is highlighted, but KWord waits for confirmation from you. This can be useful if you need to see the complete title of the template and you cannot read it. After you have right clicked, the complete title of the selected template is visible along the bottom of the selection box. You can select another template if you need to, or you can confirm by clicking "OK".

Starting an "Empty" document

This is the default action, and begins a new document in Wordprocessing Mode, with one frame per page. This is an excellent choice for every day correspondance, or general word processing.