Creating and managing your documents will be much easier if you understand the importance of keeping your files and workspace organized.

Files correspond to any item or application on your computer and may include images, sounds, videos, and saved work from a software application (such as Word, Excel, and Access), etc.

Folders represent an organizational tool for storing and managing your files.

It is very important that we learn how to properly manage files and folders. By learning the general concept we can then apply it to other objects. For example, a file (icon, picture, shortcut) can be created, opened, deleted, copied, cut, and pasted/moved. A folder can also be manipulated in the same manner as a file.