Overview: Starting a Document With Lisa, you handle documents much the way you do in an office, but folders and documents are stored on disks instead of in file drawers. Diskettes are like small file drawers. Hard disks are like large file drawers. DISKS hold FOLDERS with DOCUMENTS: In this topic you’ll learn to: Open a diskette and a folder. Create a new document. Name your new document. You’ll learn to use the File/Print menu, now in the menu bar. We’ll add items to the menu as they’re introduced.
	The picture at the desktop’s lower left is an ICON that represents a diskette named Samples. You can open the icon and see the folders and documents the diskette contains. Lisa’s basic principle is SELECT what to work with, then OPERATE on the selection. Opening the Samples diskette icon illustrates the principle: SELECT (highlight) the icon by clicking in the little picture of the diskette named Samples. OPERATE by choosing Open from the File/Print menu, now beside Topics in the menu bar: Press and hold on File/Print. Move the pointer’s tip over Open. Release when Open highlights. (If Open is dim, redo step 1.) (When you see a rectangle named Samples at the desktop’s lower right you’ve opened the icon: Press Continue.)
	A WINDOW to Samples is now at the lower right of your Lisa’s desktop. In the window you can see the icons for two folders and a document that are on the Samples diskette. Do this to open the Supplies folder, so you can see the stationery needed to create a document. Tell the Lisa what to work with: Select (highlight) the Supplies folder icon by clicking in it. Choose Open from the File/Print menu. Note: If Open is dim, redo step 1. (Forgotten how to choose from a menu? Press and hold over the menu name; move the pointer over Open; release when Open highlights.)
	The Supplies window contains STATIONERY PAD icons named Memos and Empty Folders. Copies of a memo form are on the Memos pad. Do this to tear off a memo form from the Memos pad: Select (highlight) the Memos pad to tell your Lisa you want to work with a memo form. Choose Tear Off Stationery from the File/Print menu. (Remember: Highlight an item before you release.) You’ll know you’ve succeeded when the new document icon, Untitled, appears next to the Memos pad.
	It’s a good idea to rename a new document. Otherwise you may wind up having many documents all named “Untitled”: A confusing situation. Follow these steps to rename Untitled: Select (highlight) the Untitled icon. Type this: My memo (Typing mistake? Press the Backspace key at the main keyboard’s upper right.)
	That’s right! But you named the new document “ MyMemo ” instead of “My Memo.” We’ll change the name to My Memo and go on.