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Shahrad Rezaei Tehrani |
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Chapter 8 - Finding Files You may sometimes find it hard to locate a saved file. For example, you may have accidentally forgotten to switch to the 3 1/2 Floppy drive to save. Luckily, hidden in the Start Menu is a program called "Find" which can locate it for you. The Find program can search a particular disk or all of the disks in your computer.
Find a file Do this: Move the pointer over the Start Menu. Left click and drag to Find. Drag out to Files or Folders... Left click. A window will appear called Find: All Files. Use a Wildcard Search The Named box inside the Find window lets you type in the name of the file that you're looking for. If you've forgotten the file name or part of the name you can substitute a * for the missing letters. e.g. Possible name win*.* The name indicates that you think that it starts with "win" but are unsure of whether it has other letters after that, or what type of windows file it is. These are some examples of possible matches for this search. Possible matches window.ini win95.txt windows.bak The search is normally not case sensitive. This means that it will find files which contain capital letters even if you don't use one in your search name. To Search Do this: Move the pointer over the Start Menu. Left click and drag to Find. Drag out to Files or Folders... Left click. A window will appear called Find: All Files. Left click in the Name box. Type in the file name - windows.bak Choose the drive it might be saved on from the Look in box. Left click the Find Now button. A results list should appear in the scrolling box in the bottom of the window. You can open any file, folder or program by double clicking on its name. There are many other options available to you to help you search but this method will find most of the files that you need to search for. Use the Advanced Tab The advanced tab gives you more options when finding a file. It can search for text and file of a chosen size. More importantly, you can choose the type of file, for example, Word file, PageMaker file, etc. This is a good way to narrow the search.
Do this: Move the pointer over the Start Menu. Left click and drag to Find. Drag out to Files or Folders... Left click. A window will appear called Find: All Files. Click on the Advanced tab. Click the Of type: pull down menu arrow. Choose the program with which you created the file (this will find all files of that type). If you wish, you can enter some words to help in the Containing text: box to narrow the search. Left click on the Find Now button. Chapter Test Answer these questions. 1. Why would you need to search for a file? 2. If you make a mistake when working with a file, can you fix the mistake? 3. Can you drag to file into the Recycle Bin? 4. What program can you use to look at your files and folders? 5. What is the Hard Drive similar to? 6. What were folders called in DOS? 7. When could you use a wildcard search? 8. What is a * used for when searching? 9. When should you format a floppy disk? |
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