. The Save and Open Dialog Boxes When you choose File Save, you're asked where you want the new document stored on your hard drive. The resulting dialog box is crystal-clear | . The Save and Open Dialog Boxes When you choose File Save you re asked where you want the new document stored on your hard drive. The resulting dialog box is crystal-clear more than ever it s a miniature Finder. All of the skills you ve picked up working at the desktop come into play here. To give it a try launch any Mac OS X program that has a Save or Export command TextEdit for example. Type a couple of words and then choose File Save. The Save sheet appears Figure 5-15 . Tip In Mac OS X a quick glance at the Close button in the upper-left corner of a document window tells you whether it s been saved. When a small dot appears in the red button it means you ve made changes to the document that you haven t saved yet. Time to press -S . The dot disappears as soon as you save your work. . Sheets In the days of operating systems gone by the Save dialog box appeared dead center on the screen where it commandeered your entire operation. Moreover because it seemed stuck to your screen rather than to a particular document you couldn t actually tell which document you were saving a real problem when you quit out of a program that had three unsaved documents open. Figure 5-15. Top The Save dialog box or sheet often appears in its compact form. Right inset If you open the Where pop-up menu you ll find that Mac OS X lists all the places it thinks you might want to save your new document on the hard drive or iDisk in a folder that you ve put into your Sidebar Section or into a folder you ve recently opened. Bottom If you want to choose a different folder or create a new folder click the button shown above to expand the dialog box. Here you see the equivalent of the Finder with a choice of icon list or column view. Even the Sidebar is here complete with access to other disks on the network. In most Mac OS X programs there s no mystery regarding which document you re saving because a little Save dialog box called a sheet slides directly out of the document s title .
