From the course: Word Essential Training (Microsoft 365)

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Insert and save new text in Word

Insert and save new text in Word

- [Instructor] As you know, Microsoft Word is a word processing application, so the bulk of the work you'll be doing using Microsoft Word will involve working with words or text. So in this movie, we're going to explore inserting new text into a document, as well as replacing text, and we're going to do it with this version of our Red30Conference document. You can see, I've added a lot more text for you, so you don't have to type it. Go to the Chapter Two folder of your Exercise Files if you have them, and open up Red30Conference0201, and you'll have what I have. Let's start by inserting some content. By default, when you click anywhere on the page and start typing, you'll be inserting text. You won't be typing over existing content. In this first paragraph here where we see, "Take a deep dive into AI at this year's conference," maybe we want it to say "This year's Red30 Tech Conference." Well, in that case, we'll click right before the C in conference. That gets our flashing cursor…

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