The File menu (figure 17,18 , and
19 ) includes commands for working with files or documents. This section discusses the commands most often found under the File menu: New, Open, Close, and Save.
Choose File > New (Figure 7 ) or window (Figure 20 ) appears.
As shown in
Figures 17, 18 , and
19 , the exact wording of the command for creating a new document or window varies depending on the application and what the command does. This command, however, is usually the first one on the File menu.
1. | Choose File > Open (Figure 17 ) or press Figure 21. TextEdit's Open dialog includes all of the elements found in a standard Open dialog. |
2. | Use any combination of the following techniques to locate the document you want to open: Use the From pop-up menu (Figure 22 ) to backtrack from the currently displayed location to one of its enclosing folders or to a recently accessed folder. Figure 22. The From (and Where) pop-up menu enables you to backtrack from the currently displayed location to the folders in which it resides or a recently accessed folder.Click one of the items in the Sidebar list on the left side of the dialog to view the contents of that item. Press Click one of the items in either list to view its contents in the list on the right side of the window. (The list containing the item you clicked shifts to the left if necessary.) Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the two lists to shift lists. Shifting lists to the right enables you to see your path from the item selected in the Sidebar list. |
3. | When the name of the file you want to open appears in the list on the right side of the window, use one of the following techniques to open it: Select the file name and then click Open or press Double-click the file name. |
The exact wording of the Open command varies depending on the application and what you want to open. For example, the Open command on Safari's File menu(Figure 19 ) is Open File.
The Open Recent command, which is available on the File menu of some applications (Figure 17 ), displays a submenu of recently opened items (Figure 23 ). Choose the item you want to open it again.
As illustrated in
Figures 21 and
24 , the Open dialog has many standard elements that appear in all Open dialogs.
In step 3, you can only select the files that the application can open; other files will either not appear in the list or will appear in gray. Some applications, such as Microsoft Word, include a pop-up menu that enables you to specify the types of files that appear in the Open dialog.
In step 3, selecting a file's name in the Open dialog displays its icon or a preview and other information for the file on the right side of the dialog (Chapter 5 .
The Sidebar is covered in
Chapter 2 , file paths are discussed in
Chapter 3 , and iDisk is covered in
1. | Choose File > Close (Figure 16 appears. Click Don't Save to close the window without saving the document. Click Cancel or press Click Save or press |
1. | Choose File > Save (Figure 17 ) or press 27 ). Figure 26. The Save dialog sheet can be collapsed to offer fewer options…Figure 27. …or expanded to offer more options. |
2. | Use the Where pop-up menu (Figure 22 ) to select a location in which to save the document. or If necessary, click the triangle beside the Where pop-up menu (Figure 26 ) to expand the dialog (Figure 27 ). Then use any combination of the following techniques to select a location in which to save the document: Use the Where pop-up menu (Figure 22 ) to backtrack from the currently displayed location to one of its enclosing folders or a recently accessed folder. Click one of the items in the Sidebar list on the left side of the dialog to view the contents of that item. Press Click one of the items in either list to view its contents on the right side of the dialog. (The list containing the item you clicked shifts to the left if necessary.) Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the two lists to shift lists. Shifting lists to the right enables you to see your path from the item selected in the Sidebar. Click the New Folder button to create a new folder inside the currently selected folder. Enter a name for the folder in the New Folder dialog that appears (Figure 28 ), and click Create. Figure 28. Use the New Folder dialog to enter a name for a new folder. |
3. | When the name of the folder in which you want to save the document appears on the Where pop-up menu, enter a name for the document in the Save As box and click Save. The document is saved in the location you specified. The name of the file appears in the document window's title bar (Figure 29 ). Figure 29. The name of the newly saved file appears in the window's title bar. |
The Sidebar is covered in
Chapter 2 , file paths are discussed in
Chapter 3 , and iDisk is covered in
Choose File > Save (Figure 17 ), or press
The document is saved in the same location with the same name, thus overwriting the existing version of the document with the new version.
Mac OS X includes three ways to indicate whether a window contains unsaved changes:
A bullet character appears in the close button on the title bar of the window for a document with unsaved changes (Figure 30 ).
The document icon appears faded on the title bar of the window for a document with unsaved changes (Figure 30 ).
In some applications, a bullet character appears in the Window menu beside the name of the window for a document with unsaved changes (Figure 34 ). The Window menu is discussed a little later in this chapter.
1. | Choose File > Save As (Figures 17 and 19 ) to display the Save dialog sheet (Figure 26 or 27 ). |
2. | Follow steps 2 and 3 in the section titled "To save a document for the first time" to select a location, enter a name, and save the document. |
Saving a document with a new name or in a new location creates a copy of the existing document. The open document is the copy, not the original. Any further changes you make and save for the open document are saved to the copy rather than the original.
If you use the Save dialog to save a document with the same name as a document in the selected location, a confirmation dialog like the one in
Figure 31 appears. You have two options:
Click Cancel or press
Click Replace or press
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