Chapter 9

Working with Documents and Folders

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Gaining a general understanding of creating a document

Bullet Exploring how to use File Explorer

Bullet Getting familiar with how to do backups

Bullet Seeing how to move files between your physical computer and your cloud PC

If you are like us, then you remember the days when the world ran using paper. Big file cabinets contained all sorts of documents in the form of pieces of paper. Each piece of paper represented information of some type, and they were grouped together in folders. Some of those pieces of paper were drawings or photographs, some were typewritten text, and others were a combination of both. And then the digital age swept the world.

If you are an experienced computer user, then you are already familiar with documents and folders in the digital age. Documents became digital, and working with them involved using specific software applications such as the popular Office applications Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. We like to think of the migration from paper to digital documents as the first great wave of transition. We are now well ...

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