Opening Documents
You have several ways to reopen a document that you've already named and saved.To open a document: In the program that created the document, choose File > Open; navigate to the document; then click Open (Figure 6.29 ).Figure 6.29. The Open dialog box works like the Save dialog box described in the preceding section.
Table 2.1 in "Customizing the Start Menu" in Chapter 2.or Choose Start > Run (or press Windows logo key+R); type the document's name and path and then press Enter.
Launching Programs" earlier in this chapter.Like the Save dialog box, the Open dialog box must be closed before you can use another part of the program.To open a file that's not associated with a particular program, right-click the file; choose Open With; then select the name of a program. See "Associating Documents with Programs" later in this chapter.If you open a document that somebody else already has open, the program usually will warn you or open a read-only copy of the document, unless it's a multiuser document such as a database.Explorer's Favorites menu lets you add documentsnot only web pagesto your Favorites list, which you can access quickly in the Open and Save dialog boxes.