The file type ________ indicates the file is a word document

• Click File > Open. • Double-click This PC. (In Word 2013, double-click Computer). • Browse to the Custom Office Templates folder that’s under My Documents. • Click your template, and click Open. • Make the changes you want, then save and close the template. Add content controls to a template Make your templates flexible by adding and configuring content controls, such as rich text controls, pictures, drop-down lists, or date pickers. For example, you might create a template that includes a drop-down list. If you allow editing to the drop-down list, other people can change the list options to meet their needs. Note: If content controls are not available, you may have opened a document or a template that was created in an earlier version of Word. To use content controls, you must convert the document to the Word 2013 file format by clicking File > Info > Convert, and then clicking OK. After you convert the document or template, save it. Before you can add content controls, you need to show the Developer tab. • Click File > Options > Customize Ribbon. • Under Customize the Ribbon, select Main Tabs. • In the list, select the Developer check box, and then click OK. Add content controls On the Developer tab, in the Controls group, click Design Mode, and then insert the controls that you want. Insert a text control where users can enter text In a rich text content control, users can format text as bold or italic, and they can type multiple paragraphs. If you want to limit what ...

Michael Crider Writer Michael Crider is a veteran technology journalist with a decade of experience. He spent five years writing for Android Police and his work has appeared on Digital Trends and Lifehacker. He’s covered industry events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Mobile World Congress in person. For most of its long history, Microsoft Word has used a proprietary format for its saved files, DOC. Starting in 2007 with the updated version of Word (and Microsoft Office), the default save format was changed to DOCX. This wasn’t simply a belated 1990s “extreme” version of the format—that extra X stands for the Office Open XML standard. What’s the difference, and which one should you use? DOC is a document format used by Microsoft Word, while DOCX is its successor. Both are relatively open, but DOCX is more efficient and creates smaller, less corruptable files . If given the choice, use DOCX. DOC is only necessary if the file will be used by pre-2007 versions of Word. A Brief History of the DOC Format Microsoft Word started using the DOC format and file extension over 30 years ago in the very first release of Word for MS-DOS. As an extension explicitly for Microsoft’s proprietary document processor, the format was also proprietary: Word was the only program that officially supported DOC files until Microsoft opened the specification in 2006, after which it was reverse-engineered. Microsoft Word has used the DOC file format for over 30 years. In the 90s and ...