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    Windows Tutorial 2 Organizing Your Files: Comprehensive

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    The document provides guidance on organizing files in Windows, including developing strategies for naming and structuring folders to help find files quickly. It discusses creating, moving, copying, and deleting files and folders, as well as searching for files. Additional topics covered include customizing folder views, sorting files, creating compressed folders to save space, and extracting files from compressed folders.

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    Windows Tutorial 2 Organizing Your Files: Comprehensive

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    The document provides guidance on organizing files in Windows, including developing strategies for naming and structuring folders to help find files quickly. It discusses creating, moving, copying, and deleting files and folders, as well as searching for files. Additional topics covered include customizing folder views, sorting files, creating compressed folders to save space, and extracting files from compressed folders.

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    The document provides guidance on organizing files in Windows, including developing strategies for naming and structuring folders to help find files quickly. It discusses creating, moving, copying, and deleting files and folders, as well as searching for files. Additional topics covered include customizing folder views, sorting files, creating compressed folders to save space, and extracting files from compressed folders.

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    Windows Tutorial 2 Organizing Your Files: Comprehensive

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    The document provides guidance on organizing files in Windows, including developing strategies for naming and structuring folders to help find files quickly. It discusses creating, moving, copying, and deleting files and folders, as well as searching for files. Additional topics covered include customizing folder views, sorting files, creating compressed folders to save space, and extracting files from compressed folders.

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    Windows Tutorial 2 Organizing Your Files

    COMPREHENSIVE

    Objectives
    Develop file management strategies Plan the organization of your files and folders Explore files and folders Find files quickly Create folders Select files and folders

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    Name, copy, move, and delete files Work with new files Sort, group, and stack files Set the appearance of a folder window Compress and extract files Copy files to removable media

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    Getting Prepared to Manage Your Files

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    Exploring Files and Folders

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    Using the Search Box to Find Files

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    The Search box appears next to the Address bar in any folder window

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    Managing Files and Folders


    Keep folder names short and familiar Develop standards for naming folders Create subfolders to organize files

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    Creating a Folder in a Folder Window

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    In the Folders list, click the drive or folder in which you want to create a folder Click Organize on the toolbar, and then click New Folder Type a name for the folder, and then press the Enter key or Right-click a folder in the Folders list or right-click a blank area in the folder window, point to New, and then click Folder Type a name for the folder, and then press the Enter key

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    Moving a File or Folder in a Folder Window

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    Right-click and drag the file or folder you want to move to the destination folder Click Move Here on the shortcut menu or Right-click the file or folder you want to move, and then click Cut on the shortcut menu Navigate to and right-click the destination folder, and then click Paste on the shortcut menu
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    Copying a File or Folder in a Folder Window

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    Right-click and drag the file or folder you want to move to the destination folder Click Copy Here on the shortcut menu or Right-click the file or folder you want to copy, and then click Copy on the shortcut menu Navigate to and right-click the destination folder, and then click the Paste on the shortcut menu
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    Managing Files and Folders

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    Guidelines for Naming Files


    Use common names Dont change the file extension Find a comfortable balance between too short and too long

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    Working with New Files


    Creating a File
    Start a program and then save the file in a folder on your computer

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    Saving a File
    When you save a new file, you use the Save As dialog box to specify a filename and a location for the file

    Opening a File
    If you want to open a file in a running program, you use the Open dialog box, which is a folder window with additional controls for opening a file
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    Refining Your Organization


    As you create files using programs, save them in an appropriate folder and use filenames that help you identify the file contents Sorting files and folders means to list them in a particular order You can filter the contents of a folder to display only files and folders with certain characteristics When you stack files, you arrange all of the files in the list into piles, called stacks A group displays a sequential list of all the files in a folder, grouped according to a file detail
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    Refining Your Organization

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    Customizing a Folder Window

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    Customizing a Folder Window

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    Customizing a Folder Window


    Click the Organize button on the toolbar, click Folder and Search Options, and then click the View tab

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    Working with Compressed Folders

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    If you transfer files from one location to another (such as from hard disk to removable disk or vice versa, or from one computer to another via e-mail) you can store the files in a compressed (zipped) folder Compressed (zipped) folders take up less disk space You can create a compressed folder using the Send To Compressed (zipped) Folder command on the shortcut menu of one or more selected files or folders You can compress additional files or folders by dragging them into the compressed folder
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    Working with Compressed Folders

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    Working with Compressed Folders


    Open a compressed folder by double-clicking it When you extract files, Windows Vista uncompresses and copies files to the location you specify, preserving the files in their original folder structure

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