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Hour 7: Creating a New StarWriter Document |
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After you've entered the text of your document, you'll want to save it to your hard disk.
To open the Save As dialog box, press the disk icon on the Main toolbar (see Figure 7.8) or choose Save from the File menu.
Figure
7.8
The
disk icon on the Main toolbar saves your document. If the document doesn't
have a name yet, it opens the Save As dialog box.
Note - The disk icon is gray (so you can't click on it) unless you have a document open, with changes. Each time you save your document, the icon goes gray until you make other edits. |
When you open the Save As dialog box to save a document to disk, the subdirectory that appears in the dialog box is the StarOffice Work Folder. If you enter a filename and choose OK, your document is saved in the Work Folder, which is actually a subdirectory of the StarOffice directory.
The advantage to saving your files in the default Work Folder is that your files are always available from the Explorer window (as you learned in Hour 3, "Using the Explorer and the Desktop").
On the other hand, you might prefer that your StarOffice files are located with other word processing or personal files; or, you might have separate directories where you want to store your word processing files, spreadsheets, presentations, and so forth.
You can change the default so that the StarOffice Save As dialog box always starts at a different location in the Linux filesystem: Change the Work Folder path in the General Options dialog box. (See Hour 4 for details.)
It doesn't take too many disasters before people start planning for them. If you've ever lost several days' work, or even a productive hour's work because of a power glitch, a system crash, or some other problem, you probably save documents regularly.
Of course, Linux never seems to crash. Still, why not get in the habit of using that handy little key combination any time you pause to think during your typing: Press Ctrl+S.
After you've saved a document the first time, and have given it a document name, you can update it on your hard disk by using the Ctrl+S Accelerator key combination. You can see this listed next to the Save item in the File menu, but choosing that menu item all the time isn't nearly as convenient as pressing the Accelerator keys.
If you're more a mouse person than a keyboard person, you can click on the floppy disk icon to update your document on the hard disk. If you've already saved the file once, you don't have to enter the document's name again.
Sometimes, you might also need to save your document with a new name.
For example, suppose you open a file that you previously sent to someone. You need to alter the name and resend it to another friend. If you just choose Save or press Ctrl+S, you'll erase the original version of the file.
Instead, after you've opened the original file, immediately choose Save As from the File menu. Enter a new name for the file and choose OK. Now you can make changes to the file and save it without losing the information in the original file.
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