How to Rename Word Document in Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010?

It would be beneficial to rename a document when you manage a large amount of word documents, and especially when you rename logically and simply, those word documents are good to identify, edit and organize. Could we find a way of no need to close the document and switch back to the desktop for word rename document? To save the time of manually changing all file names, we come up a solution with Office Tab.

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Now, let us see and compare the ways in renaming word document as follows:

Method A:

When you finish editing one document, before rename this document, you need to save this document and then exit to the desktop. Find this document on your computer, and right click this doc, click Rename from the drop-down menu and then enter the new name.

Method B:

There is another way for you with no need to exit to desktop to rename a word document. That is, Save as this document.

Click on the File tab

Click Save As in the left pane

In the Save As window, locate a folder to save this doc on the computer

Enter new name in the field of File Name

Click Save button

Note: This method may take time and effort to manage documets, so we don't recommend you for word rename documents.

Method C:

It is much easier to rename document in word if you are using Office Tab, an add-in for Microsoft Office. This software adds tabbed feature to Word, Excel and PowerPoint, managing multiples documents into a single window.

When a document is open as a tab on the tab bar, just right click on this tab and its context menu comes out. Click Rename at the bottom and enter the new file name in blank field of the popup window, and click OK button and immediately you could see the tab name changed, and this is the renamed document name.

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