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Lake County Area Computer Enthusiast
May 2016 Members Helping Members Volume 33-01
Two Ways to Keep Track To find a Word document on your computer,
you need to know some information about it.
of your Word Files Newer Windows systems have better
searching capabilities than in the past, but
By Nancy DeMarte, 1st Vice President, Sarasota you still need to know the document title or a
Technology User Group, FL few key words. Alternatively, you might just
January 2016 issue, Sarasota Technology Moni- open File Explorer and start looking through
tor folders for a logical location. Besides being
www.thestug.org time-consuming, often this approach does
ndemarte (at) verizon.net not locate the file you want.
Every computer file has a “file path,” or the
I often hear people say that they have so many specific address where the file is located. An
documents saved in their computer in so many example of a path is
different folders, that it’s hard to locate a specific C:\Users\Nancy\Documents\Recipes\Carrot
document. They can’t remember where they Cake, which can be read this way: the Car-
saved it. If you have found yourself in this situa- rot Cake recipe is stored in a folder called
tion, these tips might help. Recipes, which is stored in my Documents
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