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Learning the Basics
Saving your work
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Use this dialog box to specify where to store the document
and to give it a file name.
A sample Save As dialog box
2 Choose the drive and folder where you want your file to
be stored.
3 Type a file name, then click Save.
HINT: To make another copy of the file you are currently
working with, choose Save As from the File menu and give the
new file a different name.
The Windows
®
XP operating system supports file names of
up to 255 characters; the names can include spaces. Some
applications still require MS-DOS
®
file names.
File names
If you plan to share your files with a computer using a pre-
Windows
®
95 version of the Windows
®
operating system, the
file name must be no more than eight characters long.
Typically the file name also has an extension, consisting of a
period and up to three additional characters.
