When you have a document open, the Document menu contains the following commands:
When you view a listing of your documents in the Document Organizer, other commands are available.
You can start a new document while you are still working on an open document. Click New and another window or tab opens, with a blank document.
You can open a document while you are still editing another document. Open... displays the Document Organizer in a new window or a new tab, where you can select another document, have both documents open at the same time, and move between them.
When you are finished working on a document, click Close to go to the Document Organizer.
![]() |
Note: You can also close your document by clicking the Docs icon on the right side of the toolbar. |
You can use the Save command to explicitly save your document on the Buzzword server. Buzzword automatically saves changes to an active document at intervals based on time and level of activity, but the Save command allows you to save your document without waiting.
![]() |
Note: Another way to explicitly save your document is to click the Synchronator in the lower right corner of the Buzzword screen. |
The Save As command creates a new instance of the current document with a new name; it also lets you export documents to Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml), Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx), Rich Text Format (.rtf), HTML zipped into a compressed file (.zip), or plain text (.txt) files.
To save a Buzzword document with a new name:
Notes:
To export a Buzzword document:
Note: Your browser may allow you to specify a particular location for saving all downloads or it may always open a dialog box that asks you whether to open the document or save it. It may also specify an application for opening the document.
Note: The file will have the same name as in Buzzword, except that spaces will be replaced with underscores. For example, “Notes for Thesis” would be saved as “Notes_for_Thesis.”
Fonts that Buzzword uses are mapped as follows:
Note: In the Preview release, exported images that float with center or right alignment and an offset do not retain the offset in the resulting document, so if you have used these layout options, the exported document's layout may be different from the layout in Buzzword.
The Share dialog box lets you share a document by sending an email invitation. For people who already have Buzzword accounts, you can just assign the new collaborator a role: Co-Author, Reviewer, or Reader For more details about sharing, see Sharing Documents.
The Page Setup dialog box allows you to specify margins and paper size. The units of measurement (inches, centimeters, or points) are set in Settings & Preferences, on the Buzzword menu. Page Setup also allows you to specify a different header and/or footer on the first page of the document.
Page Setup values are set only for the document you are working on. There is currently no way to save different default settings that you can apply to all your documents.
The Print command sends your document to the printer exactly as it's laid out on the screen, except for comments, which appear at the end of the printed document, beginning on a new page.
After choosing Document Print, you see a print dialog box that lets you specify paper size and orientation; select which pages to print; and turn printing comments on or off. Once you click OK, you see your usual operating system print dialog box where you can select the destination printer.
When the document prints, any comments appear at the end of the document, following the endnotes, if any. Comments are listed in the same order as they appear in the document itself, numbered to match the boxed reference numbers that appear in the right margin of the printed document, next to the text to which the comment applies. Identifying information — commenter's name, date and time of comment — follows each comment.
Note: For Macintosh users, when you print in Buzzword, an additional dialog box appears, as shown below.