- [Instructor] In lots of applications,
you will need to create a new file and do some work.
But in order to keep the work that you've done,
you need to save that file in a folder
somewhere on your storage drive.
Now I'm starting in Microsoft Word,
but don't worry if you don't use Microsoft Word.
We're going to do something that works the same
in many different applications.
I'm going to create a new document
and I'll just do a little work here.
I'm going to type in some text
and I'm going to pause there.
Once you've done some work on your document,
you should think about saving it.
Now in Microsoft Word,
I'll click File near the top left corner,
and I'm looking for the options Save and Save As.
Remember, every application is different.
Some have a menu. Some have toolbars.
This will look different
and you may need to look around a bit, but ultimately,
you're looking for the same options, Save and Save As.
Now, since this is a new document that I've never saved,
at this point, they would basically do the same thing.
So I'll just click Save As,
and now Microsoft Word has an extra step
that most applications don't have.
I need to click this Browse button.
So usually when you choose Save As,
you go straight to a window like this,
and all you need to do is give your file a name
and set the location where you want that file to be saved.
So here in this filename field,
I'll type in the name that I want for that file.
And now the rest of this window looks very similar
to a File Explorer window.
So when you choose the folder
where you want to save the file,
you can take advantage of the shortcuts
over here on the left.
So I want to save this on my documents folder,
so I can just click on the document shortcut
and save it there.
Or I could choose one of the subfolders
inside of my documents folder,
but I'm just going to save it here.
I've given it a location.
I've given it a name. I can click Save.
And now that document has been saved.
And now I can close this application.
And later when I want to get back to that file,
I can go to File Explorer,
I can go to the folder where I saved that file
and there it is.
I can just double-click on it here
to launch that application and open that document.
Now in the future as you make changes,
you need to save the changes
to the file that you just established.
Now, depending on your setup,
some applications like Microsoft Word
have an auto-save feature.
So it will automatically save your changes as you go,
which is a really convenient option,
but I'm going to turn off the auto-save feature here.
I can just flip this switch right up here on the top left.
I want to turn that off just so we can see
what you do in an application that does not have auto-save.
Now, what if you make a change here?
So I'm going to change a word in this document,
and now I want to make sure to save that change to my file.
So what I'll need to do is click File
near the top left corner
or whatever you do in whatever application you're using
to get to Save and Save As.
And since we're just updating a file that already exists,
I can just click Save and now those changes have been saved.
So unless you have an auto-save feature,
you should click that Save button periodically
to make sure your changes are updated to your file.
But later, you might decide
that you want to keep this file as it is,
but you also want a different version of that file
so you can work in a different direction
in a different file.
So what you could do is go back
to where you have Save or Save As,
and if you choose Save As at this point,
and of course here in Word we'll have to click Browse,
once again, you can give this a new filename
and choose a different location where you want to store it.
Now, I still want to store it in the same place.
I'm going to store it in documents,
but for this new version of the file,
I'm just going to change the name to Meeting Notes Q4
and then I'll save that.
So now I've saved a different version of this file.
And if I go to File Explorer and go to my documents folder,
I can see I have both of those files here.
So that's it.
Make sure to save your files so you can come back to it
and continue working where you left off later.