Learning the Basics

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Saving your work

Use this dialog box to specify where to store the document and to give it a file name.

Sample Save As dialog box

2Choose the drive and folder where you want your file to be stored.

3Type 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.

File names

The Windows XP operating system supports long file names which can contain up to 255 characters and can include spaces. Some applications do not support long file names and require file names limited to no more than eight characters.

You may use all the letters and numbers on the keyboard plus these characters: _ ^ $ ~ ! # % & { } ( ) @ and '. File names are not case-sensitive.