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Let's take a look at the basics of opening files. I know this is going to be familiar for most of you, but it's probably worthwhile going over. Pull down the file menu and choose open. Here it goes to the last folder that you had open. Now, I realize that in the Mac it will look a little bit different, but the principles of what I cover here will be the same. Now let's go down at the bottom here. One thing it asks is files of type. Here we have all readable files. Now, you can narrow the field down. I've only got three documents here, but if you just wanted InDesign files, you can choose that. Notice this old, one of them, disappeared. Why? Because it's an old PageMaker file, so if I choose PageMaker, like this, you can see it comes up as a PageMaker file. It recognizes it. You can also import Quark Express, but only versions 3.3 and 4.1x, so some of the more modern, 4, 5, 6 and 7, you're not going to be able to do it. Job options, that's a special feature that we'll get to much later, but let's just move back to all files. Now it's just got them as a list here. That's the way I like to do it, but you can also choose thumbnails so that you can see it like that or you can choose icons, small icons. Notice that when I went to thumbnails it did give me a little preview of some of them. Some of them do save a preview. These ones here haven't done it. So you've got a couple of options down here. One is normal, original and copy. If you open the normal or original, you're just going to open the one that you have. If you open a copy, it saves this one on the disc and you're not editing it, so when you're prompted to save, you'll have to save it as something else. If you're in the wrong folder, you can obviously navigate throughout your hard drive or hard drives to find the right folder that you want to open in. Let me just cancel out of here and we'll take a look at another way and that is through Bridge. Bridge is a great little program. We've got a chapter devoted to using it a little later on. So I'll click in here, in a folder with nothing in it, here, we can see the files here. Now, they've got little thumbnails that we can see, but if I can't see them too well, I can always make them a little bit bigger, like this and here we can see the files we want to open. This is the one we want to open now, so I'm just going to double click on it and it opens here. We'll take a look at how Bridge works, as I said, a little bit later on, but those are just some of the basics of opening. We've opened the document and now it tells us up in the status bar its name. But if I, for example, had opened and choose the same file, but I'm going to choose a copy, click and open like that, it opens up here. Notice it says untitled. Now we've got to give it a different name when we save it. In the next movie, we'll take a look at some of the problems you may encounter when opening files.