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Windows 11 For Dummies
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Windows 11 For Dummies

by Andy Rathbone
November 2021
Beginner
464 pages
11h 49m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Playing with Programs, Apps, and Documents

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Opening a program, an app, or a document

Bullet Changing which program opens which document

Bullet Installing, uninstalling, and updating apps

Bullet Creating a shortcut

Bullet Cutting, copying, and pasting

In Windows, apps and programs are your tools: Load a program or an app, and you can add numbers, arrange words, and shoot spaceships.

Documents, by contrast, are the things you create with apps and programs, such as tax forms, heartfelt apologies, and lists of high scores.

This chapter explains the basics of opening apps and programs from the Start menu in Windows. It explains how to find, download, and install a new app from the Start menu’s Microsoft Store app. It also shows you where to find an app’s menus. (Microsoft mysteriously hid most of them.)

As you flip through this chapter’s pages, you figure out how to make your preferred program open your files. You also create desktop shortcuts — buttons that let you quickly load favorite ...

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