Now,
Where On My Computer Did I File That, Anyway?
by Pam Jones
When was the last time you knew you had an email message or a
document in your word processor but couldn't remember where it was filed on your computer? I find myself in this position almost every day and my "find" button has
become my best friend.
To find files on your hard drive, if you are using Windows, click
the "Start" button in the lower left hand corner (unless you moved it someplace
else). Go to Find and then Find Files or Folders. You can find almost anything in the Name
& Location section of the screen by typing a word that would be in the document you
are looking for and clicking on My Computer.
Here is an example of how I use the Find function
almost every day. The computers in our office are
networked and periodically I have to find something on another computer. I have no idea
what they may have named the file or what computer or drive it may be on. I go to Find
Files and Folders, type in specific text I know is in the item I am looking
for (I try to use a phrase that won't appear in 100 other items) in the section marked
"containing text". Where it says "Look in:" it usually displays a
specific hard drive. I change this to "My Computer". A search is performed on
all the drives connected to my computer and a listing of all of the files containing that
specific text are listed and what folders they are in. I can find the one I am looking
for without much effort at all. You can also search by the date a document was created or
various other ways.
I am forever looking for a message in my email program. Who knows
how many file folders I have created or which folder a message may be in. If I am looking
for a message from a specific person I can type their name in the from section
of my find utility and it will search for all of the messages from that person. If I know
the content of the message I am looking for I can type in a specific word or phrase for
what I am looking for and will receive a list of all of the messages containing that word
or phrase. This will sometimes give me a fairly long list but I can usually find what I am
looking for without overtaxing my poor brain or spending a lot of time looking for
the message I need.
I will never forget the time I had used an article in my
newsletter, the author of
the article had made some changes in the links in his bio. The author contacted me and
asked me to change the information. In order to quickly find the article I used my Find
feature. I not only came up with the issue of my newsletter it was used in and my source
for his article, I also found that it had been in some other newsletters I had received. I
forwarded this information to the author and he was grateful that I had come up with the
information so quickly and the additional newsletter publishers who had used his article
so he could contact them also. It took me all of about 10 minutes to find the message,
forward the information to him and change the information in my past issues.
With the fast paced world we live in anything to save time is a
blessing. Get to know the time-saving functions of your computer. Practice using them and
you won't know what you ever did without them.
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