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File manipulation

File manipulation

- This is a filing cabinet. It holds various folders that can have sub-folders and files. That's pretty much the same way a computer's mass storage, like a hard drive, works. I have a computer with a single hard drive, the typical PC. That drive has a bunch of folders on it, and in those folders are files, pieces of data that you can do stuff with. You can do five basic things with files. You can create them, copy, move, cut, and delete them. Let's start with how to create a file. Here I have a piece of paper with words on it, a Word document. I'll just save it in a folder in the filing cabinet. Let's see what that looks like in a computer. There are many ways to create a file on a computer. To create a document, for example, right-click in a folder and select New and pick a file type for an application installed on that system. In this case, Microsoft Word. Give it a name. Double-click the file and Word will open…

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