Create A New Document In Word Web App

There are several ways for you to create a new Word document in the Word Web App. On the initial screen you are presented with on signing in to Office Web Apps, you will see a horizontal menu running along the top of the page. If you hover over the Office menu, a drop down menu appears with the option to create a New Word document.

Click on that option and then using the next screen you can name your document. The initial name that gets defaulted in is something like Document1 but you should rename this to something that decsribes well the document you are about to create. Notice the .docx file extension that is used. This cannot be changed as all new Word documents created in the Word Web App must use .docx. You can upload and open .doc file though, but that’s another tutorial!

Once you have named the document, click Save and your new (blank) document will open.

Other ways to create a new Word document will get you to the same point and are as follows. If you look at the drop down menu that appears when you hover over the Office option (see the first image above), you can see the option to go to your Recent Documents. Click that and you will be taken to a list of documents that you recently worked on.

On this screen there are two more ways to create a new document: If you click on New, a drop down menu appears from which you can take the option to create a new Word document:

Finally, you can click on the Word icon that is displayed to the right of your Recent Documents page.