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You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+W which will close the file but not Word.
Otherwise, you can go under File and choose Close from the backstage.
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You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+W which will close the file but not Word.
Otherwise, you can go under File and choose Close from the backstage.
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Ctrl+F4 (or Ctrl+Fn+F4) would also work if you just want to close the document.
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