How to create a new document When you open Microsoft Word, you can create a new empty document or use a built-in template.

Microsoft makes a free version of Microsoft Word available for anyone to use on the web. You have to register a Microsoft account, but that's free too.

For example, in the Word web app, you can’t load in charts, or create citations and a bibliography. You can’t do mail merges, compare and merge two documents, or run macros (automations).

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.