basic computers - file management

1. ScaredyCat Computer Series
Session 3
File Management
• Folder and File
• Duplicating a file by using "Copy"
and "Paste"
• The difference between "Copy"
and "Cut"
• Check a file's attribute, i.e. file's
name, type and size
• Using a USB Thumb Drive
• Copy a file to a Thumb Drive
• Using "Find" to search a file on
hard disk

2. WHAT IS A FILE?
File is a collection of information
that the computer keeps together
as one object. For example, in the
case of a document, every letter
and every word needs to be
remembered, so the computer
packages it altogether as one file.

3. FILE STORAGE
• Just like things in the real world, computer
files need space in which to be stored.
There are a few different places in the
computer where you can store files. The
most common of these is the hard
drive, which is the area inside the computer
for holding data. Essentially, all programs
and support files will be located on your
hard drive.
• However, you might choose to put your
own files someplace else. For example, you
should already have a Flash drive to hold
some of your work. The hard drive can
store hundreds of times the amount of
information that a Flash drive can
store, but the Flash drive is a useful tool
nonetheless.
• Similar to a Flash drive, you might also
choose to store your work to a compact
disc or a floppy disk.

4. http://youtu.be/_RMw6195Kr8

5. Right Click
Choose NEW
Choose Folder

6. Rename
Folder to
Basic
Computers

8. Password is geek

9. Right click, choose
save link as

10. Choose desktop
then look for the
folder (named
basic computers)
you made to save
file into... Click on
it then press save
button

11. Repeat for session 2 download

13. LEFT CLICK on side
bar to grab it and
move it to size
window

14. Double left click to open
Basic Computers file

15. Your desktop should have two windows open like this
Look under MY COMPUTER
window for USB/Removable disk
drive and left click 2x to open it

16. Left click on file under Basic
Computers folder and drag it to
your USB device folder

21. Create New folder in USB drive

22. Rename it Computer Lessons

23. Left click on a
file until it is blue
then drag it to
the Computer
Lesson Folder
Repeat for other
file.

25. Session 4: Using Application
Software - Word (basic)
• Create a document, and edit it.
• Use menus and toolbars in
Word to accomplish basic tasks
from changing document
margins to undoing changes.
• Use basic formatting to make
text bold or italic.
• Change line spacing, indent
paragraphs, and apply basic
styles to a document.
• Save a finished document.
Please bring a USB Thumb
Drive/Memory Stick