On my mac word documents how do i move a doc into a folder i just created. FYI click and drag and cut and paste do not work. New at this mac stuff so any help would be great!
2007-12-01 13:27:00 · 2 answers · asked by Sarah S 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You are already doing it the perfect, normal way. Nothing else to learn. Isn't that good? Now, why the heck isn't your system co-operating? Do you see a message when it "does not work"? Is the folder on some external drive? Is the external drive formatted NTFS? Mac can only write files to Mac Standard, Mac Extended, UFS and FAT-32 file system drives. You can read what's on an NTFS formatted drive but you cannot write to it without mucking about with a third party application that can mess up other image mounting ability of the Mac so don't go there. Just format the drive FAT-32 and Bob's your uncle. You can format it when it is attached to a Windows computer (guess you know how, eh?) or when attached to the Mac. On the Mac, backup all the data from that ext. drive first. Then use Disk Utility to format it "DOS". That's Apple's way of saying FAT-32.
2007-12-01 13:46:31 · answer #1 · answered by SilverTonguedDevil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the document is saved you should be able to drag and drop it anywhere you want it. Just highlight it, keep the mouse down and drop it in the folder. If you "cut" it will go away. You must "copy" and paste to another application. For instance, you can take a Text edit document, highlight it, copy it and then paste it into another Text edit document. As I've mentioned to others, new Mac users might want to check into a local user group. They love to have their brains picked by newbies. Check here for a group near you.
http://www.apple.com/usergroups/find/
2007-12-01 21:42:57 · answer #2 · answered by Barbara M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋