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Apple Macintosh LC User Manual

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This is like opening a file drawer and seeing all the folders in the drawer.

Before you can see what's inside those folders, you must open them. That's

what you did when you opened the Letters folder and the Unsent Letters

folder.

You look over your Friday Ad and decide it's perfect as is. But you want to

check the old Wednesday Ad. Follow these steps to close the Friday Ad and

open the Wednesday Ad:

1. Close the Friday Ad by clicking its close box.

The document closes. You are still in TeachText.

Now you're ready to open the Wednesday Ad.

2. Choose Open from the File menu.

The directory list opens again. Only this time, instead of showing you the

items on the top level of your directory, the list displays the items in the

Unsent Letters folder.

Whenever you leave this list (called the directory dialog box), the Macintosh

remembers where you were and puts you back there when you return to the list.

When you last used the directory dialog box you were working inside the

Unsent Letters folder, so the Macintosh brought you back there when you chose

the Open command again.

Notice that your Wednesday Ad is not listed. That is because the Wednesday Ad

is not inside the Unsent Letters folder, but inside the Sent Letters folder.

So before you can open the Wednesday Ad, you'll need to open the Sent Letters

folder.

You know that to open a folder and go further down in the list of folders you

click the name of the folder and then the Open button. But the Sent Letters

folder is at the same level as the Unsent Letters folder (that is, they are

both inside the Letters folder). The following steps tell you how to get to

the Letters folder, so that you can open the Sent Letters folder.

3. Position the pointer on Unsent Letters and press the mouse button.

As you hold down the mouse button, a list of items appears, showing you the

folders and disks that hold the Unsent Letters folder. That list is called a

pop-up menu.

4. Drag until Letters is highlighted and then release the mouse button.

When you release the mouse button, the list changes to show you the contents

of the folder you chose from the pop-up menu, the Letters folder.

There you see the Unsent Letters folder, the Sent Letters folder, and the

Camping Ad document.

You want to open the Wednesday Ad, which is in the Sent Letters folder, so

open the Sent Letters folder.

5. Click Sent Letters in the list, and then click the Open button.