Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Mountain Lion

Open a Document

To work with a document that you have saved in the past, you can open it in the application that you used to create it. When you save a document, you save its contents to your Mac’s hard disk, and those contents are stored in a separate file. When you open the document using the same application that you used to save it, OS X loads the file’s contents into memory and displays the document in the application. You can then view or edit the document as needed.

Open a Document

Start the application that you want to work with.

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