| To conserve your computer's resources, close any files you are not working on. You can close open documents one at a time, or you can use one command to close all open files without closing the program. Either way, if you try to close a document without saving your final changes, a dialog box appears, prompting you to do so. Close One File -
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| | If necessary, click Yes to save your changes. | Close All Open Files -
| | In Word or Excel, press and hold Shift. | -
| | Click the File menu, and then click Close All. | -
| | If necessary, click Yes to save your changes. | Did You Know? Microsoft Word uses one Close button . When two or more documents are open in Word, the window contains one Close button. The Close button closes the document without exiting the program. You might need to click a Word document button on the taskbar to make it active before you click the Close button. | |