Chapter 6
Playing with Apps and Documents
IN THIS CHAPTER
Opening an app or a document
Changing which app opens which document
Installing, uninstalling, and updating apps
Creating a shortcut
Cutting, copying, and pasting
In Windows, apps are your tools: Load an app, and you can add numbers, arrange words, shoot spaceships, alter pictures, play music, create videos. Documents, by contrast, are the things you create with apps, such as tax forms, heartfelt apologies, pictures, music, and videos.
In this chapter, you learn how to find, download, and install an app from the Start menu’s Microsoft Store app, and then start the app from the Start menu in Windows.
As you flip through this chapter’s pages, you figure out how to make your preferred app open your files. You also create desktop shortcuts — buttons that let you quickly open favorite files, folders, and apps.
The chapter ends with the section “Absolutely Essential Guide to Cutting, Copying, and Pasting.” Put those skills under ...
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