Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
    • What Is WordPad?
    • Moving the Text Insertion Point
    • Inserting and Deleting Text
    • Selecting, Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
    • Formatting a Document
    • Saving a Document and Exiting WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Saving a Document and Exiting WordPad

To avoid losing the changes you've made to your WordPad document file, you need to save your work often. The first time you save a document, you assign it a name and location on the disk. From that point forward, you save the document without naming it again. If you attempt to exit WordPad or close the file without saving the file, or without saving your most recent changes, WordPad will prompt you to save the document.

To save a WordPad document:

1. Choose File, Save As. The Save As dialog box (shown in Figure 10.5) appears.
   

   Figure 10.5 Give the file a name and choose a location on the disk.

2. In the Save In drop-down list, choose a drive to save the file to.
3. In the list box, double-click the folder in which you want to save the file.
4. In the File Name text box, enter a name for the file; you can take advantage of Windows long filenames by entering letters, numbers, and spaces that exceed the previous DOS eight-letter limitations.
5. Choose Save. Windows saves the file, closes the dialog box, and returns to the document onscreen. The name in the title bar changes from "Untitled" to the name you assigned your document.
6. To exit WordPad, click the Close (X) button or choose File, Exit.

In this lesson, you learned how to create, edit, format, and save a document in WordPad. In the next lesson, you learn to use the recycle bin and how to read file properties.

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