The File menu provides the following commands:

Menu Name    Menu Purpose

New    If you choose this command, Abiword will start a fresh document.

Open    This command allows you to load an existing document into the wordprocessor.

Save    This command will save the currently open document to disk.

Save As    This command allows you to save the currently open document to disk with a different name, or different format.

Import    If you choose this command you will be able to load a document that was written using a different word processor into Abiword.

Export    This command allows you to save your document using one of many alternative file formats. You would typically do this if you wanted to give your document to someone who uses a different word processing program that has a different file format.

Revert    This feature will revert the document to the version of the document when it was opened, prior to any changes being made.

Page Setup    This command allows you to specify such things as the size of the paper onto which you will be printing. It also allows you to set the size of your margins, and whether you want your document to come out on the paper in landscape or portrait format. If you choose portrait, then the top and bottom edges of your document will be the shorter edge of the paper. If you choose landscape, then the top and bottom of the page will be the long edge of the paper.

Print    This command will send the document that you have open to the printer.

Close    This command will close the currently open document.

Exit    This command will close the Abiword program.