Chapter 8: Working with Documents

In This Chapter

Opening documents in the Finder and iCloud

Creating documents in the Finder and iCloud

Copying, moving, renaming, and deleting documents in the Finder and iCloud

Working with a document's content

Saving documents in the Finder and iCloud

Working with document versions and locking

Closing documents

Sharing documents with other users

What you typically use a Mac for is to work with documents, whether text, spreadsheets, photos, music, or web pages. Documents—basically, those files that people work with on a computer—are what you work in, and the Finder and applications are basically the tools designed to let you open, read or play, modify, and save.

Most of the time you spend working on documents is in the traditional manner: creating and modifying documents, printing and sharing them, and saving them for future use.

Documents can reside in all sorts of places: On your Mac's startup disk, on other disks connected to your Mac via a USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire cable or over the network (see Chapter 31), or on storage servers accessible via the Internet.

That last type of storage, known as “cloud storage,” is increasingly popular, because it makes your documents accessible from any Mac, any PC, and many mobile devices (including Apple's) over an Internet connection. In an era when most of us use several computers and also smartphones or iPads, the ability to store documents in a central, easily accessible location is increasingly ...

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