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32 Learning the Basics Saving your work Saving your work Before you turn off the computer, save your work on the hard disk drive or a diskette. This is one of the most important rules of computing. TECHNICAL NOTE: If you shut down your computer using the Standby command and the battery discharges fully, your information will be lost. Be sure to save your work often to prevent losing data. Saving documents is quick and easy, so it is a good idea to get in the habit of saving frequently. That way, if you run into trouble, you won't lose many hours of work. Many programs offer a feature that saves documents at regular intervals, such as every 15 minutes. Check your program's documentation to see whether it has an automatic save feature. Saving files 1 On the File menu of your Windows program, click Save. If you are working with a document that already has a file name, and you want it saved to the same folder, that's all there is to it. HINT: If you are working with a document that already has a file name BUT you want to save it under a different name or in a different folder, click Save As. If you created a new document, your program displays a Save As dialog box. Use this dialog box to specify where to store the document and to give it a file name.

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Learning the Basics
Saving your work
Saving your work
Before you turn off the computer, save your work on the hard disk
drive or a diskette. This is one of the most important rules of
computing.
TECHNICAL NOTE: If you shut down your computer using
the Standby command and the battery discharges fully, your
information will be lost. Be sure to save your work often to
prevent losing data.
Saving documents is quick and easy, so it is a good idea to get in
the habit of saving frequently. That way, if you run into trouble,
you won’t lose many hours of work.
Many programs offer a feature that saves documents at regular
intervals, such as every 15 minutes. Check your program’s
documentation to see whether it has an automatic save feature.
Saving files
1
On the
File
menu of your Windows program, click
Save
.
If you are working with a document that already has a file
name, and you want it saved to the same folder, that’s all there
is to it.
HINT: If you are working with a document that already has a
file name BUT you want to save it under a different name or
in a different folder, click Save As.
If you created a new document, your program displays a Save
As dialog box. Use this dialog box to specify where to store
the document and to give it a file name.