Getting Familiar with the Open File Dialog Box

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WordPerfect maintains a list of the previous nine documents that you've opened. They appear at the bottom of the File menu. To choose one of these documents, open the File menu and either click the filename or press the underlined number next to the filename. WordPerfect opens the file into a new document window, and you are ready to go.

When you're ready to open a file, you will use the Open File dialog box. You will spend more time in this dialog box than in almost any other dialog box in WordPerfect, so it's important to spend a few minutes getting familiar with it.

To display the Open File dialog ...

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