Start your
software application, first, open your file on the My Documents from
within the application and then carry on with your work. Save regularly onto the
My Documents by going to the tool bar at the top left of the screen and
choose When you start work on a workstation, first click on the Explore my Computer icon and copy any files from a previous session (held on floppy disk or in your filestore) onto the My Documents as show above.
Start your
software application, first, open your file on the My Documents from
within the application and then carry on with your work. Save regularly onto the
My Documents by going to the tool bar at the top left of the screen and
choose
SAVE (NOT SAVE AS).
When you have finished your session, close down your application, return to Explorer MY Computer and make copies of your work into your filestore and also onto at least one floppy disk.
By doing this you have a very good chance of ensuring you
have taken the best steps to safeguard your work.
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Remember: Computers rely on their hardware and environment to perform amazing tasks, but they are not foolproof. Things can and do go wrong and you must be aware of this. |
Practice
now using Welcome.doc. There is a copy ready to use in My
Documents, which you copied and pasted there from you filestore
in the previous exercise.
Click
on the Word 2000 icon 
Wait for it to load.
Using
the mouse go to the File Menu along the top Tool Bar. Select File,
then Open.
In
the dialogue box, highlight Welcome.doc and click on Open.
Make
a small change to Welcome.doc.
Go
back to File and choose Save.
Close
down Word 2000. Click in the top right hand corner 
to close the application.
Don't forget to copy and paste this new version of your work to your filestore if you want to use this version again another time.