Managing Your Work If you haven’t been through this tour before, do the topics in order. Select a topic by clicking it. Copying documents Copying disks Throwing documents away Putting documents in folders Opening a document from within an application
	1. Copying documents Suppose you have a document called Letter on one disk, and you want to put a copy of it on another disk.
	To copy a document from one disk to another, you drag its icon to the disk you’re copying to. When both the document and the disk icon are highlighted, you release the mouse button.
	You see a message telling you the Macintosh is copying your file.
	When the message disappears, your file has been copied. You can verify this by opening the disk and checking for the icon.
	The original document always stays where it was.
	If you want to distinguish between the original and the copy, you can give one of them a new name. You can rename a document, a disk, or a folder just by selecting its icon and typing the new name.
	Let me try.
	Put a copy of the document called Letter 2 onto the disk called Correspondence.
	Good. You now have a copy of this document on both your disks.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to copy a document from one disk to another. In section 2, you’ll learn how to copy an entire disk.
	2. Copying disks Sometimes you’ll want to copy all the files from one disk onto another disk. This is called making a backup copy of the disk.
	Suppose you want to make a backup copy of the disk called Correspondence. You can use either a brand-new disk for the backup or a disk you’ve used before and are ready to erase.
	If this is a brand-new disk, right out of the box, the Macintosh will ask you if you want to initialize it. Initializing puts a kind of pattern on the disk that lets the Macintosh keep track of your files. See your owner’s guide for more about initializing disks.
	But let’s say you’re using a disk you’ve used before. (Remember – don’t use one that contains information you still want.) You put the disk into one of your drives. An icon for the new disk shows up on the desktop.
	To make your copy, you drag the Correspondence disk icon onto the backup disk icon, releasing the mouse button when both icons are highlighted.
	This dialog box protects you against mistakes. If you accidentally moved the backup disk icon onto the Correspondence icon, for example, all the contents of Correspondence would be replaced by the contents of the other disk. If you’re doing what you intend to do, you click OK.
	The contents of the two disks are now identical. You can verify this by opening the disks.
	You might want to change the name of the backup disk. You can do this just by selecting its icon and typing the new name.
	Let me try.
	Drawings is the disk you want to copy. Blank is a blank disk. Make a backup copy of Drawings.
	To confirm that you’re copying the disk you want to copy, click OK.
	Good. The contents of Drawings and Blank are now the same. It’s always a good idea to make backup copies of your disks in case you lose or damage the original.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to make copies of disks. In section 3, you’ll find out how to throw away documents you no longer need.
	3. Throwing documents away Sometimes you’ll want to get rid of a document – an old version of something, for example, or a letter or memo you’re finished with. You do this by dragging the document icon to the Trash.
	This doesn’t erase the document from the disk immediately. The bulging Trash icon tells you your document is still in there. If you change your mind, you can still get it back. With the Trash icon selected, just choose Open from the File menu.
	Your document stays in the Trash until one of these things occurs: You choose Empty Trash from the Special menu. You leave the desktop to enter an application. You turn off the computer. The Macintosh needs more memory to work with and gets it by emptying the Trash. Then your document is permanently erased.
	Let me try.
	Put the document called Zeke in the Trash.
	You’ve decided you won’t need this document again. To erase it permanently, choose Empty Trash from the Special menu.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to get rid of documents you no longer need. Throwing things away increases the amount of available space on your disk. In section 4, you’ll learn about organizing your work.
	4. Putting documents in folders After you’ve used your Macintosh for a while, you’ll have a lot of files on your disk.
	Because your Macintosh uses a hierarchical file system, you can organize your files in folders, just as you would with paper files.
	Here’s how the system works. Let’s say you’ve written several travel articles for the newspaper.
	You organize them by putting them in folders. To bring a new folder icon into the window, choose New Folder from the File menu.
	You can give this folder a new name just by typing one when the folder is selected.
	Now you can put all the articles about the Western U.S. into this folder. You do this by dragging the documetn icons to the folder icon. When the folder icon is highlighted, you release the mouse button. The document will “go inside” the folder.
	To open a folder and see the files inside, select it an choose Open from the File menu.
	To close a folder, choose Close from the File menu.
	You can also double-click a folder icon to open it...
	And click the close box to close it.
	You can put folders inside folders, too.
	The result is a hierarchy of files. When all your folders are closed, you’re looking at the “top level” of your files.
	As you open your folders, you go down in the hierarchy.
	Organizing your files this way makes it much easier to keep track of them.
	Let me try.
	Bring a new folder icon into the window by choosing New Folder from the File menu.
	Name the folder. Type Europe. Click somewhere else in the window.
	Drag the Paris and Rome documents into the folder.
	Double-click the folder to see the documents inside.
	Close the folder by clicking the close box.
	In this section, you’ve learned how to put documents into folders. This will help you organize your work. In section 5, you’ll learn how to work with folders within an application.
	5. Opening a document from within an application Suppose you have two folders on your desktop.
	Each of your folders contains three documents.
	You open one of your documents by double-clicking it. (Opening a document opens the application it was created with at the same time.)
	Then you work on it for a while.
	When you finish working, you save the document.
	And close it.
	But you don’t want to leave the word processing application. There’s another document you want to work on. To open this document, you choose Open from the File menu.
	This dialog box lists all the word processing files on your hard disk. But your Macintosh probably has more than one disk drive. If the document you want is on a different disk, you click the Drive button until you see that disk’s name and contents. The name at the top of the window tells you which disk you’re looking at.
	Right now you’re seeing the “top level” of your files – just the names of the folders. You can tell that these are names of folders because of the folder icon beside each one.
	Suppose the document you want is in the folder called Reviews. To open the folder, you click its name and then click Open.
	When you open a folder, you see its contents in the window. The name you see at the top is the folder’s name.
	When you want to go back to the “top level,” you move the pointer to the window title...
	Press and hold the mouse button...
	And you see a menu. There’s the name of the folder you’re in...
	And the name of the disk the folders are on. By choosing from this menu, you can get to any level of your files.
	Let me try.
	You’ve finished working on this review for now. Close it by choosing Close from the File menu.
	Now you want to work on a different word processing document. Choose Open from the File menu.
	The dialog box shows the folders on your disk. The document you want to open is in the folder called Letters. That folder is already selected. To open it, click Open.
	That’s right. Remember, you can tell whether you’re looking at the name of a folder or a document by noting the icon beside it.
	You’ve come to the end of your toure of the Macintosh. You can go back to any section you’d like to see again just by clicking Menu and then Main Menu. If you’re ready to stop, click Quit the Tour on the Main Menu screen. This will eject the disk and let you start up again with whatever application you want. Welcome to Macintosh computing!