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Apple Macintosh LC User Manual

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Two clues can help you figure out where you are:

-There are no icons in sight. If you were back in the Finder, you'd see icons

representing your disks and the Trash, as well as any windows that were open

when you began working.

-The menu bar at the top of the screen contains the menu titles for the

TeachText program, but not for the Finder.

The document you were working on is now closed, but the TeachText application

program is still open.

If you wanted to start a new TeachText document, you could choose New from

the File menu, and a new Untitled window would appear on the screen. (Don't

try this now.)

Opening a Document from Inside an Application Program

You saw earlier that you can open a document by opening its icon from the

Finder desktop. You can also open a document from inside the application

program that created the document. Since the TeachText application is open

you can try it now.

1.Choose the Open command from the File menu.

A dialog box appears that looks much like the one you saw earlier when you

saved your document.

A list on the left shows you all the documents and folders you can open.

2.Select the document "Camping Ad" by clicking its name in the list.

If Camping Ad is already highlighted (surrounded by the black bar), you can

skip this step.

3. Click the button labeled Open.

The computer reads the document from the disk, and your document opens.

Closing Without Saving Changes

Now that you have your document open again, try this experiment:

1. Delete the first sentence in your document.

In case you need a reminder, here's how:

- Place the I-beam before the first letter in the document.

- Drag across (and down, if necessary) until the entire sentence is

surrounded by black.

- Release the mouse button.

- Press the Delete key.