Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Importance of Saving in the Right Place

The question: Where is the PowerPoint presentation I was working on here yesterday?

The girl asking this seemed like she might be close to tears. I asked her if she had any idea where she'd saved it. She said she'd been working on a different computer, but that shouldn't matter, should it?

When we checked the computer she had been working on, there was the PowerPoint, saved to the Documents folder of the computer and not her user folder. I told her to be sure to save it to her own folder this time, and she'd be able to open it on any of the other computers.

A short lesson, but important nonetheless.

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