Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Yosemite

Chapter 2

Learning Basic Document Tasks

Much of the work you do in OS X involves documents, which are files that contain text, images, and other data. These tasks include saving, opening, printing, and editing documents, as well as copying and renaming files.

Save a Document

Open a Document

Print a Document

Edit Document Text

Copy a File

Move a File

Rename a File

Delete a File

Open a Folder in a Tab

Save a Document

After you create a document and make changes to it, you can save the document to preserve your work. When you work on a document, OS X stores the changes in your computer’s memory. However, OS X erases the contents of the Mac’s memory ...