Specify the location . Check the file type . Click the Save Button . Usually, you will save your work to My Documents on the hard drive. The file type is an important feature of the Windows operating system.
Most application programs have their own file types.
These types are represented using extensions to the file name. Such extensions tell you, the operating system, and the application program what kind of file this file is. The file type is shown beneath the file name in Figures Windows 7 and 8 . The filename identifies a file to you, to the application program, and to Windows. Each file in a folder must have a different name from any other file in the same folder.