Apple Macintosh LC - Manual (Page 48)

Just as they would be in a file cabinet, the letters in folders are visible
only after you open the folders.
If you wanted to, you could plan for the future (when you envision having
dozens of letters written) by organizing the documents inside the Letters
folder into two more folders, sent and unsent letters, for example.
10. Choose New Folder from the File menu.
A new Empty Folder appears in your Letters folder window.
11. Type Sent Letters and then press the Return key to name the new folder.
12. Choose New Folder from the File menu again.
13. Type Unsent Letters and press Return.
You now have two new folders inside your Letters folder that you can use to
organize the documents you store there.
14. Drag the Wednesday Ad into the Sent Letters folder.
15. Drag the Friday Ad into the Unsent Letters folder.
For now, leave the Camping Ad where it is.
If it made sense to you, you could add more folders inside your Letters
folder, or you could add folders inside the Sent and Unsent Letters folders
to subdivide the documents inside those folders. You can use an organization
scheme as complex or as simple as you want. Do whatever will help you keep
your icons organized in a way that makes sense to you.
16. To straighten everything up again, close all the open windows on your
desktop.
Close all open folder and disk windows by clicking their close boxes.
Using folders with application programs
Now that you have the items on your System Startup disk a little better
organized, you can go on to learn how to use your new organization when you
are working with an application program (like TeachText).
1. Open the System Startup disk.
2. Open the TeachText application program.
Opening the TeachText icon takes you out of the Finder desktop environment,
and moves you into TeachText.
A new, untitled TeachText document appears, with the familiar TeachText menus
displayed.
You decide you don't want to create a new document; instead you want to look
at your old Friday Ad. Before you can open the Friday Ad, you need to close
the blank document TeachText opened.
3. Close the blank TeachText document.