Anatomy of the “Save” Every Time You Save a Document, You Use the C Save Dialog Box
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alifornia Anatomy of the “Save” Every time you save a document, you use the C Save dialog box. Even though it is a familiar part of our Macs, the Save dialog box has some mysteries and oddities. I’ve used Apple- omputer Dialog Box Works 6’s Save dialog as an example below. C Name of the window Click to enlarge Name your file here are See back page. You can save in C Here is AppleWorks format or where other for- your file mats like will be News, Microsoft saved. Word, Text Views, and RTF. Click this Stop the Save process Tips and menu for Click to more choices. After you’ve named your file, picked a see more Cool Techniques format and chosenWhere to Save it, click here. Where places to for CCC Members save. You will May 2010 then see this menu. Vol. XIII, No. 3 The icons that appear here If you are the same icons that want appear in the sidebar of a more We Finder window: choices of places speak to save, see the Geek, back so you page. These are the don’t last few folders that AppleWorks have to. used for saving. Sidebar For more Save choices— MMayTayTip— On the front page, you saw the standard choices of places to save, but if you want more Not everyone uses Apple’s Safari web choices, click the little blue box next to the Save As: field. Do so, and you will have access browser. Some folks prefer Firefox, to every folder and drive stored in your Mac. many like Camino or Opera or Omni Web or Chrome or Shiira or . These Click to chose to view your files and folders So, if you use a web browser that isn’t forward in Column (as shown) or List view. Click to see these extra Safari, you may be annoyed when you and back choices. click a web link, in an email, and Sa- arrows Currently fari opens instead of your favorite. work just chosen as they folder Not fun! do in a Easy to fix, however. Just do this: web Type 1) Launch Safari. browser. here to 2) From the Safari menu, choose Prefer- search ences... for lost The 3) In the preferences window, click on stuff. Finder the General button. window 4) In General preferences, click the De- side bar fault Web Browser menu and choose Column appears your favorite browser from the list. view. here. 5) Close the Preferences window. 6) Quit Safari. Done! Slide left and right to see more columns. Click to hide file extensions like the Click to create a new folder within the .cwk in the Save As: field and .txt in currently chosen folder. the tp_debug.txt file. California Computer Care P.O. Box 9445 Santa Rosa, CA 95405 (800) 540-8989 [email protected] Like an auto club for your computer..