National Qualifications Online - Core skills

Using Windows Explorer 2

This is an activity to try on your computer

Now you try it.

  1. Click on Windows Explorer.
  2. Find and open your folder as your tutor has shown you.
  3. Find this file icon. Check the file has the correct name.
    A picture of the icon from Microsoft Word file 'First File'
  4. Click on the icon. The file should open up in the program that created it.

The computer knew that this file had been created by the word processing program called Microsoft Word.

Look for the program name Microsoft Word at the top of the window.