Hallo and greetings.

In this Clinic, we show you how to take out that insurance by saving your data onto floppies.

You are going to need good floppies in several of the Computer Clinics. It really makes good sense to get some brand new floppies.
As a basic minimum, allocate 1 for your e-mails, 1 for documents and 1 for important files (like your Computer Clinics---which we have always asked you to save as single files on your PC).

Soon, some of you will need another 2 or 3 for your Anti-Viral Emergency Disks, and another one for your boot-up disk....but we'll get those later.

RIGHT... CLINIC IS IN SESSION ... LET'S GET SOME INSURANCE !

HOW TO SAVE YOUR E-MAILS

• Put the disk that you are using for E-MAILS into your floppy drive (the 'A' drive)
• Open your e-mail client Outlook Express.
• In the top right panel, LEFT-click ONCE on the e-mail Subject/Header that you want to save :

LEFT-click ONCE on the e-mail Title/Header to highlight it.

• Now, at the top left of your tool-bar, click on 'File' and then 'Save As ...':

With your e-mail Title/Header highlighted, click on 'FILE'. This little drop-down menu appears. Click on "Save As ..."

• When you click on "Save As...", the following box appears:
• If you wish to call the e-mail something else, then first type the new name into the 'File name' box.
  Now, click on the little down-arrow at the end of the 'Save in' box

Click on the "down arrow" at the end of the "Save in" box. A drop-down menu appears. Click on 3½ Floppy (A:), then click on the big "Save" button.

You will hear a 'clunk' sound as your floppy drive activates, then a 'zrrr .... zrrr' sound as your e-mail is being "written" (copied) onto the floppy.

Good work!! 

You've just made a 'floppy copy' of your important e-mails.
If you want to save copies of more e-mails, simply repeat the steps.

• Put the disk that you are using for E-MAILS into your floppy drive (the 'A' drive)
• Open your e-mail client Outlook Express.
  
• In the top right panel, LEFT-click ONCE on the e-mail Subject/Header that you want to save :

LEFT-click ONCE on the e-mail Title/Header to highlight it.

• At the top left of your tool-bar, click on 'File' and then  on 'Save As ...' :

With your e-mail Title/Header highlighted, click on 'FILE'. This little drop-down menu appears. Click on 'Save As ...'

When you click on 'Save As ...', the following box now appears:
 If you wish to call the e-mail something else,  first type the new name into the 'File name' box.
Now click on the 'My Computer' icon on the far left :

	Change the File name then click on the My Computer icon on the far left.
	Double Click on 3½ Floppy (A:)
	Then click on the big 'Save' button.

You will hear a 'clunk' sound as your floppy drive activates, and then a 'zrrr .... zrrr' sound as your e-mail is being "written" (copied) onto the floppy.

Good work!!  

You've just made a 'floppy copy' of your important e-mails.

That's all there is to it.
If you wish to make copies of other e-mails, simply repeat the process.

As you go through the remaining sections of this clinic, you will become more familiar with the steps and the panels you will see as you save other files to floppy disks using your particular version of Windows.

The Doctor recommends you practice the following :

SAVING DOCUMENTS

Let's say you have typed an important letter using Microsoft WORD and you want to save it:


• Your first step is to put the floppy that you use for DOCUMENTS into your floppy drive.
  
• DOUBLE-click the Windows Explorer shortcut on your desktop (we showed you how to make special shortcuts in Clinic No. 3) and find the Word document you want.
  
  In this example, I want to save an important letter I sent to the Tax-man. So, LEFT-click just ONCE to highlight it :

LEFT-click once on the document you want to save. Hold your mouse within the blue section and RIGHT-click once

• When you RIGHT-click, the following menu appears: Hover your mouse pointer over the words 'Send To...' and another side menu appears.
  
• Click on 3½ Floppy (A)

Hover your mouse over the words 'SEND TO' .... and then .click on '3½' Floppy (A)

 
    'Clunk....Zrrr.... Zrrr' .... and your document gets written to the floppy and saved!

NOTE: Your letter will still be in its original place.
            'Send To ...' actually means 'Copy  to ...',  so an exact copy of your letter will be written onto the                floppy and saved.

HOW TO SAVE IMPORTANT FILES

We are going to save one of our Computer Clinics:
• Put the floppy you use for IMPORTANT FILES into your floppy drive.
• Double-click on your special "Computer Clinics" folder that we taught you how to make in Clinic No. 2 (go to the Library to learn how if you haven't made it yet.
  The "Computer Clinics" folder opens and inside are all the Clinics you have saved so far (including this one) - all of them are saved as a single file.

Double-click on this folder to open it. Inside will be all the Clinics you have saved as a single file.

• LEFT-click ONCE on the Clinic you want to save to your floppy :

LEFT-click ONCE on the Clinic you want to save. Hold your mouse in the blue area and RIGHT-click once.

• When you RIGHT-click, the same menu and side-menu mentioned above will pop up.
Just as before, click on 'Send To ....'  and then '3½ Floppy (A)'

'CLUNK .... ZRRR .... ZRRR '.... and your file is saved onto your floppy!

WELL DONE!!

Be sure to label each of your floppy disks carefully ---- and then to store these Health Insurance Policies in a safe place!

Now, if something awful DOES happen to your PC, you will always have copies of your important documents and e-mails.

If you don't have a printer, save the document you want onto a floppy and take it to a library close to you. Virtually every library has a computer - AND A PRINTER. Most only charge a pittance per page - so you could get a whole Computer Clinic printed out -- in full colour-- for a nominal  charge.

(An even cheaper way?  Take your floppy to a friend who has a printer !!!)

So until then---

Happy Computing ... and see you at the next Clinic!

Dr. Mac

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