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Notice that you have a mistake in the ad (the words Call and Please both

begin with uppercase letters).

5.Position the insertion point after the letter C in Call.

6.Press the Delete key once.

The letter C is erased.

7.Type a lowercase letter c.

Your edited letter is finished.

Saving Changes to a Document

Now you want to save the changes you've made to your letter. So far the

changes are in the computer's memory, but if there were a power interruption

right now your changes would be lost. (The original version of the document

is protected because you've already saved it on a disk.)

Important: Power interruptions are rare, but -- as many people have

discovered the hard way -- they can destroy hours of work. You can protect

your documents by saving them often.

Save your edited document now.

-Choose Save from the File menu.

This time you don't see a directory dialog box when you choose Save. The

computer simply saves any changes made to your document since the last time

you saved, without changing either the name of the document or its location.

By choosing Save often, you'll never lose more than a few minutes of work if

a power interruption occurs.

Closing Documents

In an earlier section of this chapter you saw that opening a document

automatically opens the program that created it. However, closing a document

does not automatically close the program. This makes it possible to continue

working in that program if you want to, without returning to the desktop

first.

You can see how this works by closing the document you just saved.

-Choose Close from the File menu.

The document disappears.

What appears on the screen at this point looks something like the desktop you

saw when you were working in the Finder (the program that lets you organize

and work with your icons), but it isn't.