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Learning the Basics
Saving your 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, that’s all there is to it. 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.
A sample Save As dialog box
2 Choose the drive and folder where you want your file to be
stored.
3 Type a file name, then click OK.
HINT: To make another copy of the file you are currently
working with, choose Save As from the File menu and give
the new file a different name.