Sign in and create a new document

- [Instructor] Well, it's time now to start creating our documents here on Word online. And the first step is to get signed in. So all you need is your browser open on your computer. You need to be connected to the internet, obviously, but you don't need to install anything else. No plug-ins, no extensions here on the Mac. You can go to Google and search for "word online". That's one option. There's many ways to get logged in using an existing account. Perhaps you have an old Hotmail account an Outlook.com account, Skype, for example. All of those will get you signed in. Going to Google and searching for a word online will give you a number of different options for getting logged in. Notice at Office.com here using Microsoft 365, we have a link to Word online. Same thing from Microsoft.com. A little further down, office.live.com. And I'm going to go over here to another tab I have open where I've just simply typed in office.com up at the top in the address bar taking me to this screen where I can sign in using the sign-in button or sign up for the free version of Microsoft 365 if I don't already have it. Notice "sign-in" also appears up here. So many ways to get signed in. Clicking "sign-in" is going to take me to a sign-in screen. If you already have an account, you might see it show up here. If not, you'll be prompted for the account like mine here, drivers@red30tech.com, where you might see a link to create one if you don't already have one. Clicking this link's going to take me to the sign-in screen for my account where I'm prompted for my password. I type that in and click "sign-in". And I'm prompted now for a little bit of information. Do I want to stay signed-in? And that'll reduce the number of times I get asked to sign-in. For example, if I close up this tab and work on something else, then go to sign in again. I won't have to every single time if I close the browser and come back perhaps. But keep in mind, if you're sharing a computer with anyone else, you'll want to choose "no" here. Otherwise, people might be opening up a tab, going to log in to their office account and see yours instead. So choosing "no" is the safest bet if you happen to be sharing. If you're really sure that no one else is going to be using your computer, you can save some time by clicking "yes" here going forward. I'm going to click "no" and it's going to take me to Microsoft 365. So over here on the left, you can see that Microsoft 365 includes a number of other apps, not just Word, but we're talking about Word online. So clicking word over here on the left hand side is going to take us directly to our Word online tab. So you can close up anything else that might be open at the top. And we'll focus here on Word. Notice we're ready to start creating a new document. At the top, "blank document" is the default template, but there are other templates up here like general notes, and you can see a house flyer. There are more templates by clicking the "see more templates" link up here if you wanted to. And then down below, you might see some recommended options. And if you've been working with this in the past, you might even see down below, some recently opened and worked on documents at the bottom. But we're going to create a new blank document by clicking "blank document". Now, the biggest difference between working with Word on your desktop computer versus here in a browser window, notice a new tab opens up for this Word document. By default, it's given a name which is just "document" and a number, and automatically it is being saved to the cloud. It's being saved to your OneDrive. Every free account includes some free storage space in the cloud when you run out. You can subscribe and pay for more if you need to. But we're ready to start creating knowing that everything we type here in our new document, is going to be saved automatically to the cloud. So, let's say we did want to type in some information. Let's use all caps here to type in the title. We'll type in, "RED 30's, ANNUAL CONFERENCE, SHINES A LIGHT ON", and then a colon, we'll press enter. Take the caps lock off, "Artificial Intelligence". Notice at some point, you might see Word prompting you to finish up the word for you. If it recognizes what you might be trying to type. A little time saver, we can type in the tab key to finish that up without having to type the full word and press "enter" to go down to the next line. So here we are working with the default document which is an eight and a half by 11 sheet of paper. It's in "portrait" mode. You can see the default font up here on the ribbon. The ribbon might look a little bit different than what you're used to if you've been working with Word on the desktop. And you'll notice in the far right hand corner, this little arrow to change the display options for your ribbon. Clicking this, shows some options like the classic ribbon. Go ahead and click that and that might be more what you're used to seeing on a computer using the desktop version of Word. Click that dropdown again in the bottom right corner of the ribbon and you can see it's always shown but we can have it automatically hiding until we move up to it. That just gives us more space on our screen for our document. I'm going to leave "always show" but go back to the simplified ribbon which gives me some extra real estate here for my document. And now we're ready to give this document a name. Because it's automatically saved to the cloud using the Word document and a number, we may want to give it something more meaningful and relevant. That's what we're going to do next.