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Overview: More Filing

In this topic you’ll learn three unrelated skills useful in a variety of circumstances as you work with your Lisa:
Duplicate an icon.
Make a stationery pad out of a document.
Discard a folder or document by placing it in the Wastebasket. Retrieve from the Wastebasket.

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You can duplicate a closed document or a closed folder and its contents to create a copy as a “backup” or for cross-filing.

Do this to duplicate the Monthly Reports folder:

  1. Select the Monthly Reports icon.
  2. Choose Duplicate from the File/Print menu.
  3. Move the blinking copy onto the desktop to complete the duplication.

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It’s often confusing to have icons with identical names. To avoid confusion, you can modify the duplicate’s name.

Do this to insert “Dup” after the duplicate’s name:

  1. Select the duplicate’s icon – it’s on the desktop.
  2. Place the arrow-pointer after “s” of the icon’s name. Move the mouse gently to the left until the I-pointer appears. Click to select an insertion point.
  3. Type a space, then type this: Dup

Now file Monthly Reports Dup in the Personal folder:

  1. Move the Monthly Reports Dup icon over the Personal icon. When the Personal icon highlights, release.

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Follow these steps to prepare the desktop for the next exercise:

  1. Put away the Reports folder window. (Notice the tiny picture of a folder in the title bar? It shows that Reports is a folder.)
  2. Open the folder Personal and verify that the Monthly Reports Dup folder is really there. You’ll also see your document My Memo, which will be used next.

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You can create your own stationery pad from any closed document, and just tear off a copy when you want to use your personalized paper. Stationery pads give you an endless supply of copies you can work with.

The My Memo document contains a memo form with your name. Do this to turn My Memo into a personalized pad of memos:

  1. Select the My Memo icon.
  2. Choose Make Stationery Pad from the File/Print menu. Notice that My Memo now looks like a pad of paper.
  3. Type My Pad to rename it. (You can type to rename an icon whenever its picture and title are highlighted.)

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Now the Wastebasket is beside the Clipboard. Except when you’re using LisaGuide, the Wastebasket and Clipboard are always on the desktop.

Do this to discard the Personal folder:

  1. Close the Personal folder window: Use either Set Aside or Save & Put Away, whichever you prefer. (You can discard only an icon, not a window.)
  2. Move the Personal folder icon over the Wastebasket icon. Release when the Wastebasket icon highlights.

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You can always retrieve the last thing you’ve discarded: Just open the Wastebasket and move the discarded item out.

Do this to retrieve the Personal folder from the Wastebasket:

  1. Open the Wastebasket. (Select the Wastebasket icon then choose Open from the File/Print menu.)
  2. Move the Personal folder out of the Wastebasket and onto the desktop.
  3. Set aside the Wastebasket window.

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Page added on 6th October 2005.

Copyright © 2002-2006 Marcin Wichary, unless stated otherwise.