Datasheet
Keep the following tips in mind when saving files:
Put on your Thinking Cap when assigning a name to a new file. The file-
name is how you can recognize the file later on, so pick a meaningful
name that suggests the file’s contents.
Don’t work on your file for hours at a time without saving it. I’ve learned
the hard way to save my work every few minutes. After all, I live in Cali-
fornia, so I never know when a rolling blackout will hit my neighborhood.
Get into the habit of saving every few minutes, especially after making a
significant change to a presentation, such as adding a covey of new slides
or making a gaggle of complicated formatting changes.
Opening a Presentation
After you save your presentation to your hard drive, you can retrieve it later
when you want to make additional changes or to print it. As you might guess,
PowerPoint gives you about 2,037 ways to accomplish the retrieval. Here are
the three most common:
Click the Office button and then choose the Open command.
Press Ctrl+O.
Press Ctrl+F12.
All three retrieval methods pop up in the Open dialog box, which gives you a
list of files to choose from. Click the file that you want and then click OK or
press Enter.
The Open dialog box has controls that enable you to rummage through the vari-
ous folders on your hard drive in search of your files. If you know how to open a
file in any Windows application, you know how to do it in PowerPoint (because
the Open dialog box is pretty much the same in any Windows program).
If you seem to have lost a file, rummage around in different folders to see
whether you can find it. Perhaps you saved a file in the wrong folder by acci-
dent. Also, check the spelling of the filename. Maybe your fingers weren’t on
the home row when you typed the filename, so instead of River City.pptx,
you saved the file as Eucwe Xurt.pptx. I hate it when that happens. If all
else fails, you can use Windows’ built-in Search feature. For Windows XP,
click the Start button and then choose Search and follow the instructions
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