Apple Macintosh LC - Manual (Page 41)

6. Choose Quit from the File menu.
Quitting takes you back to the Finder desktop, where you see icons for all
three documents:
- the original Camping Ad
- the Wednesday Ad you made by duplicating the Camping Ad
- the Friday Ad you made by saving changes to the Wednesday Ad as a new
document with a new name
Copying items onto a floppy disk
So far you have practiced two methods of making copies of documents on a
disk: duplicating the document by selecting the document and using the
Duplicate command in the Finder, and saving the document with a new name by
using an application program's Save As command.
Another kind of copying you can do is to copy items from one disk onto
another.
You'll often want to copy a document from your hard disk onto a floppy disk,
or from one floppy disk onto another, so you can
- give the disk to someone else who may want to work on the document
- take the document to another location and work on it there
- protect your work by storing the copy (also called a backup) in a safe
place
It's important to back up your work regularly. A backup copy of a document is
insurance against damage to the original. Taking a few seconds to back up a
valuable document can save you much despair and many hours of extra work.
The actual steps involved in copying a document from one disk to another are
very simple: you simply drag the icon for the item you want to copy to the
icon for the disk you want the copy on.
The only tricky part is that in order to drag an icon from one disk to
another, you need to be able to see the icons for both disks on your desktop.
That is easy if you are working with two disk drives (either one hard drive
and one floppy drive, or two floppy drives). You simply insert the second
disk in the empty disk drive and the icon appears. But if you have only one
floppy disk drive and you want to copy from one floppy onto another, you need
to eject the disk you are copying from in order to make room for the disk you
want to copy onto.
If you have only one floppy disk drive, when you copy documents from one
floppy disk to another, the Macintosh will ask you to eject one floppy disk
in order to make room for the other once or twice while copying the document.
When this happens, simply follow the directions that appear on your screen.
Follow these steps to copy the Camping Ad document from one disk to another.
1. Make sure the System Startup disk is open with its window visible on your
screen.