CheckPoint: Knowing Where You Placed Your Document

By: Juan C. Williams

University of Phoenix- IT 206
Dr. Chris Barrett, PMP
07/28/2011

From my experience, many individuals when saving a document save their documents into any random folder that comes up. Unfortunately this is cause for misplaced documents when trying to locate them at a later date. Thankfully, there are many helpful ways to locate recently saved documents. One step would be to click on the Office button which is located at the top left of your Microsoft Word document, and once the box drops down to the right-side panel will be the top nine recently saved documents. A quick reference would be to click Save and that will take you straight to your default Save designated folder. There are some various ways which have been utilized to lessen the routinely misplaced saved documents which will ultimately make it effortless to locate your recent and/or old files.
First, you should create a title for your document, something that you will easily remember in the future to be able to locate it. Now if the document is important, it is best to save it in an accessible file such as your “My Documents” folder or your desktop. One recommendation would be to create a
New Folder for example “School” that way you can create a less cluttered work space which will
Inevitably help you end up locating files quicker. It is understandable to be in a hurry to save, but, in order to create less havoc later simply create a title in which you will ultimately remember later, place in a folder that pertains to the document file and save in a easily accessible place.