Closing Documents
You close a document window just as you’d close any window: by
clicking the close box (marked by 
) in the upper-right corner of the window, by
double-clicking the top-left corner, by clicking the
in its taskbar icon’s preview thumbnail, or by
pressing Alt+F4. If you’ve done any work to the document since the
last time you saved it, Windows offers a “Save changes?” dialog box as
a reminder.
Sometimes closing the window also exits the application, and sometimes the application remains running, even with no document windows open. And in a few really bizarre cases, it’s possible to exit an application (like Windows Mail) while a document window (an email message) remains open on the screen, lingering and abandoned!
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