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Close a document

When you are finished working on a document for the moment, you can close that document window in a number of ways:

Either click the red button in the upper-left corner of the document window.

Or choose "Close" from the File menu.

Or in most applications, the keyboard shortcut to close a document is usually Command W, just like closing a Finder window.

Whichever method you use, you are simply closing the document window (putting away the paper) and the application (the software program) is still open. You still see the menu belonging to the application, even though the rest of your screen may look just like your Desktop, and you might even see windows that belong to other applications or to the Desktop!

Exercise 2:
Close your document and open another.

Single-click on the document window just to make sure it's the active window.

Do any one of the three options listed above. Don't click anywhere else yet!

If you have more than one document open, close the other one(s).

Notice even though the document window is gone, the menu bar across the top of the screen still says "TextEdit" (see the opposite page). That's because you closed the document, but you are still in the application.

Single-click anywhere on the Desktop.

Look at the menu bar nowwhere it said "TextEdit" a second ago, it should say "Finder" now. That's because as soon as you clicked on the Desktop, you popped out of the application TextEdit, and now the Finder/Desktop is active.

Go back to TextEdit: Notice the TextEdit icon in the Dock has a tiny triangle beneath it; that's because it's still open, even though you can't see it.

Single-click on the TextEdit icon and your menu bar will change to show that you are now in TextEdit.

Create a new document in TextEdit: From the "File" menu, choose "New."

Type a paragraph or two, and save it into the Documents folder with the name "Toss This" because you're going to throw it away soon.

You can tell by the menu bar that TextEdit is the active application.

Notice there are two windows open, a document window and a Finder window. The document window is "active"; you can tell because the three buttons in the upper-left are in color.

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Even though I closed the document, TextEdit is still activeyou can see its name in the menu bar.

If I were to single-click on the Finder window (which is gray at the moment because it is not active), that Finder window would "come forward" and be active, and the menu bar would change to "Finder" instead of "TextEdit."

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