MS Word Basics
Editing Documents
Formatting Text
Formatting Pages
Working with Tables
Advanced Operations
Word Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Word - Context Help
- Word - Closing Document
- Word - Opening a Document
- Word - Save Document
- Word - Move Around
- Word - Entering Text
- Word - Backstage View
- Word - Explore Window
- Word - Getting Started
- Word - Home
Editing Documents
- Word - Undo Changes
- Word - Special Symbols
- Word - Zoom In-Out
- Word - Spell Check
- Word - Find & Replace
- Word - Copy & Paste
- Word - Move Text
- Word - Delete Text
- Word - Select Text
- Word - Insert Text
Formatting Text
- Word - Apply Formatting
- Word - Set Tabs
- Word - Borders and Shades
- Word - Set Line Spacing
- Word - Create Bullets
- Word - Indent Paragraphs
- Word - Text Alignments
- Word - Change Text Color
- Word - Change Text Case
- Word - Text Decoration
- Word - Setting Text Fonts
Formatting Pages
- Word - Page Orientation
- Word - Cover Pages
- Word - Insert Blank Page
- Word - Insert Page Breaks
- Word - Add Page Numbers
- Word - Header and Footer
- Word - Adjust Page Margins
Working with Tables
- Word - Borders & Shades
- Word - Add Formula
- Word - Split Cells
- Word - Split a Table
- Word - Merging Cells
- Word - Resize a Table
- Word - Move a Table
- Word - Rows & Columns
- Word - Create a Table
Advanced Operations
- Word - Set Watermark
- Word - Document Security
- Word - Compare Document
- Word - Translate Document
- Word - Email Documents
- Word - Printing Documents
- Word - Preview Documents
- Word - Table of Contents
- Word - Auto Formatting
- Word - Auto Correction
- Word - Use Graphics
- Word - Use Templates
- Word - Quick Styles
Word Useful Resources
Selected Reading
- Who is Who
- Computer Glossary
- HR Interview Questions
- Effective Resume Writing
- Questions and Answers
- UPSC IAS Exams Notes
Word - Backstage View
Backstage View in Word 2010
In this chapter, we will discuss the Backstage View in Word 2010. The Backstage view was introduced in Word 2010. This acts as the central place for managing your documents. The backstage view helps in creating new documents, saving and opening documents, printing and sharing documents, and so on.
Getting to the Backstage View is easy: Just cpck the File tab, located in the upper-left corner of the Word Ribbon. If you already do not have any opened document, then you will see a window psting down all the recently opened documents as follows −
If you already have an opened document, then it will display a window showing detail about the opened document as shown below. Backstage view shows three columns when you select most of the available options in the first column.
The first column of the backstage view will have following options −
| S.No | Option & Description |
|---|---|
| 1 | Save If an existing document is opened, it will be saved as is, otherwise it will display a dialogue box asking for the document name. |
| 2 | Save As A dialogue box will be displayed asking for document name and document type, by default it will save in word 2010 format with extension .docx. |
| 3 | Open This option is used to open an existing word document. |
| 4 | Close This option is used to close an open document. |
| 5 | Info This option displays information about the opened document. |
| 6 | Recent This option psts down all the recently opened documents |
| 7 | New This option is used to open a new document. |
| 8 | This option is used to print an open document. |
| 9 | Save & Send This option will save an open document and will display options to send the document using email, etc. |
| 10 | Help This option is used to get the required help about Word 2010. |
| 11 | Options This option is used to set various option related to Word 2010. |
| 12 | Exit Use this option to close the document and exit. |
Document Information
When you cpck the Info option available in the first column, it displays the following information in the second column of the backstage view −
Compatibipty Mode − If the document is not a native Word 2007/2010 document, a Convert button appears here, enabpng you to easily update its format. Otherwise, this category does not appear.
Permissions − You can use this option to protect your word document. You can set a password so that nobody can open your document, or you can lock the document so that nobody can edit your document.
Prepare for Sharing − This section highpghts important information you should know about your document before you send it to others, such as a record of the edits you made as you developed the document.
Versions − If the document has been saved several times, you may be able to access the previous versions of it from this section.
Document Properties
When you cpck the Info option available in the first column, it displays various properties in the third column of the backstage view. These properties include the document size, the number of pages in the document, the total number of words in the document, the name of the author etc.
You can also edit various properties by cpcking on the property value and if the property is editable, then it will display a text box where you can add your text pke title, tags, comments, Author.
Exit Backstage View
It is simple to exit from the Backstage View. Either cpck on the File tab or press the Esc button on the keyboard to go back to the working mode of Word.
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