Moving down in the hierarchy
When you use a file cabinet you can open folders inside folders to get to a
document several folders deep. You can also open folders inside folders when
you are working in an application program like TeachText.
When you first chose the Open command, TeachText showed you the top level of
the organization (the folders and files not buried in any other folders).
This is like opening a file drawer and seeing all the folders in the drawer.
Before you can see what's inside those folders, you must open them. That's
what you did when you opened the Letters folder and the Unsent Letters
folder.
You look over your Friday Ad and decide it's perfect as is. But you want to
check the old Wednesday Ad. Follow these steps to close the Friday Ad and
open the Wednesday Ad:
1. Close the Friday Ad by clicking its close box.
The document closes. You are still in TeachText.
Now you're ready to open the Wednesday Ad.
2. Choose Open from the File menu.
The directory list opens again. Only this time, instead of showing you the
items on the top level of your directory, the list displays the items in the
Unsent Letters folder.
Whenever you leave this list (called the directory dialog box), the Macintosh
remembers where you were and puts you back there when you return to the list.
When you last used the directory dialog box you were working inside the
Unsent Letters folder, so the Macintosh brought you back there when you chose
the Open command again.
Notice that your Wednesday Ad is not listed. That is because the Wednesday Ad
is not inside the Unsent Letters folder, but inside the Sent Letters folder.
So before you can open the Wednesday Ad, you'll need to open the Sent Letters
folder.
You know that to open a folder and go further down in the list of folders you
click the name of the folder and then the Open button. But the Sent Letters
folder is at the same level as the Unsent Letters folder (that is, they are
both inside the Letters folder). The following steps tell you how to get to
the Letters folder, so that you can open the Sent Letters folder.
3. Position the pointer on Unsent Letters and press the mouse button.
As you hold down the mouse button, a list of items appears, showing you the
folders and disks that hold the Unsent Letters folder. That list is called a
pop-up menu.
4. Drag until Letters is highlighted and then release the mouse button.
When you release the mouse button, the list changes to show you the contents
of the folder you chose from the pop-up menu, the Letters folder.
There you see the Unsent Letters folder, the Sent Letters folder, and the
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