When working with electronic documents, it is very important to learn how to save your work in the computer memory. When you create a document, it is located in the computer's RAM. If you do not save the document, your work may be lost when you close the program or turn off the computer.
Instructions
Step 1
To avoid losing your work, save your documents as often as possible. You can save files to the Windows My Documents folder or to other folders that you have created on your hard drive yourself.
Step 2
The way of saving files in almost all programs is the same. Let's look at the example of the Word Pad program. Click Start - All Programs - Accessories - Word Pad. Type some text on the document. Go to the File menu and select Save. You can also use the simultaneous pressing of the Ctrl + S keys. A dialog box will appear in which you need to specify the file name, its type, and the save location. Click Save when you're done. If you work with this document again and make changes to it, you will need to save it again, but the dialog box will no longer appear.
Step 3
To save space and time, immediately save documents to the desired folders. Let's use the document that we saved in the Word Pad. In the File menu, select the Save As option. In the new dialog box that appears, you can choose a different location to save the file. For example, hard drive C. In the central pane of the window, you will see all the folders and files located on the hard drive. Here you can select a new folder to save the file. Click Save. The document has been preserved in a new location. Because before you have already saved this file to another folder, then the file now saved is a copy of it. The previous version remained in the old folder.
Step 4
Many programs allow you to save files in various formats. For example, if you want to send a file to someone who uses another text editor. Open Word Pad - Save As. By default, the file is saved in RTF format. If you need to save the file in the format of a text document, then select in the File type - Text document window and click Save. There are many formats in which a document can be saved, such as.doc or.html.
