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AbiWord Tutorial #2 – How to Save Your Documents

AbiWord is an extraordinary free word processor that offers state of the art features for word processing and text edition. This award winning piece of freeware comes with unique collaboration capabilities thanks to its integration with the AbiCollab.net online service allowing you to store and share documents with colleagues relatives or friends in an easy and fast way, amazingly you can also convert document formats on the fly.
Today I'm going to tell you how to save a document after you finished creating or editing it.

But first things first, have you got AbiWord installed in your machine? Well, if the answer to that is yes you can jump to the next paragraph but if it is no, then click on the “Download” button above and get your free full copy now, the InstallIQ installation manager will take care of the setup process, all you have to do is to follow the steps.

So, let's say you've already finished the creation or edition of a text document (if you have any doubts about basic document creation end editing you can visit our previous tutorial) and you want to save it to your folders either for later edition, reading or sending it via e-mail, all you have to do is to go to File → Save.

There are two other saving options: Save As... and Save Copy... Both of them will take you to an explorer like dialog, here you can browse to the folder where you want to store the new format or copy of the document .

These two options are pretty much the same but there is a fundamental difference, Save As... opens a dialog box to save the open document but changing its name, file type, or both closing the old and opening the new for edition, and Save Copy... works pretty much like "Save As...", with the difference that you can continue editing the document under its original name. This kind of saving is extremely handy when you need to save partial or incremental backups of your text/document at different composition points.

You can also save quickly by entering Ctrl+S on your keyboard or clicking on the “Save” button under the menu bar.

Final Words

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