OS X Mountain Lion Bible

Creating Documents

Although you'll certainly be working with documents that someone else created, sooner or later, you need to create something from scratch, and when this time comes, you need to create a new document.

Many applications save you the trouble by creating a new document whenever you open the program; Microsoft Word and TextEdit are examples of such programs. However, some applications do not automatically open a new document; Adobe Photoshop is one such example. Even if an application opens a new document by default when you launch the program, sometimes you want to create a new document when the program is already running. Some applications may have their own unique way of doing things, but most OS X applications let you create a new document using one of the following methods:

• Choose File⇒New.

• Press +N.

For some applications, you also can right-click or Control+click the application icon in the Dock and choose New Document from the contextual menu. You specify the document's location later, when you save it.

New Feature

In many iCloud-savvy applications, you also can create a new document that is stored in iCloud Documents by clicking the iCloud button at the top of the Open window (refer to Figure 8.2) and then clicking the New Document button at the bottom of the window.

Creating a copy of a document

You also can create a new document by copying an existing ...