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- [Narrator] In this
movie I'll show you how

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to safely close all open documents.

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Specifically, here on the PC.

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If you're working on the Mac,
there's a sufficient number

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of differences that
you'll be better served

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by the next movie.

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So notice that I have a
total of three documents

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open right now as
indicated by the appearance

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of these three title tabs.

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I'm going to start things off by making

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some random changes to these documents.

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I'll start by clicking on
this big number one here,

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with the black arrow
tool and then I'll press

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the backs space key to get rid of it.

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And now, I'll go ahead and
switch to the Welcome document

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by clicking on its tab and then I'll click

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on this group down here
that contains my name

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and I'll press the back space
key to get rid of it, too.

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And then, I'll go ahead and switch over to

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that six page document that
I created in an earlier movie

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and I'll just go ahead and
select the rectangle tool,

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let's say, and draw a big rectangle

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on this second art board.

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And now, I'll go ahead and switch over

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to what Illustrator
calls the Selection tool.

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I call it the black arrow tool
because that's what it is.

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And then I'll just go ahead and click off

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that rectangle to de-select it.

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Alright, now you can see
up here, in the title tab,

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that we have asterisks after
each one of the titles,

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which tells us that we
have unsaved changes.

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Now, I'll tell you from
personal experience,

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that the last thing that you want to do

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is leave your computer
this way, especially,

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if you're working at
an office environment.

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Because it's very possible that
somebody's going to come along

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and want to close your documents,

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whether because they
want to quit Illustrator

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or they just want to tidy things up.

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And so what happens is, if I go ahead

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and click on this little
close button up here

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in the title tab, I get
a warning telling me

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that I have unsaved changes.

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And what most people are going to do is,

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they're going to say, gosh I
guess Sarah or Joe or whoever,

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they of course want to save their work

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so I'll just go ahead and
click on a Yes button.

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But in our case, we
deleted some elements so

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that could really be a problem.

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Now what a conscientious
co-worker should do,

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which is pretty rare, is
click the cancel button.

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They should say gosh I
have no idea whether Tom

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or Mary wants to save the changes

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so I should just cancel out.

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What nobody does is click
the No button and just assume

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that you don't want to save your work.

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And so what I'm telling
you, is the only one

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who really knows whether they want

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to save their changes is you.

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So what I'm going to
do is cancel out here.

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And let's say I go ahead and switch over

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to the Welcome.ai file,
which is an obvious example

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of something I don't want to save

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because I deleted my own name.

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Now notice up here in the File menu

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that you have a Close command and

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it has a keyboard shortcut.

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But you really want to
do, is you want to close

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all your open documents, you don't want

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to have anything open when you
walk away from your machine.

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And so that means, in my case,

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I'm going to have to
choose this close command

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or click on one of these close
boxes a total of three times.

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But you do have the option
to close everything at once.

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Now, while there is no close all command,

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we do have a keyboard shortcut.

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All you have to do is add the Alt key.

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So in other words, you
just press Cntrl+Alt+W.

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And that's going to bring up
one alert message after another.

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All of which are going to
offer the same buttons.

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If you do want to save your changes,

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then you go ahead and
click on the Yes button.

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If you don't want to save your changes

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but you do want to close the document,

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then click on the No button.

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And if you want to cancel
the entire operation,

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just go ahead and click
on the Cancel button

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and notice that goes ahead and prevents

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the other two files from closing as well.

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But as I'm saying I very much recommend

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that you do close your
documents before you leave

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the machine, so I'll once
again press Cntrl+Alt+W

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in order to bring up the alert message.

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Now each one of these buttons
has a keyboard shortcut.

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It's Y for yes, N for no.

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So you don't have to press
Cntrl or anything like that.

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Just press the Y key to save your changes.

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Press the N key to close the file

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without saving your changes.

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And press the Esc key,
that is the escape key,

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in order to cancel the operation.

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So what I'm going to do is
click the No button here,

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because I don't want to save
the deletion of that one.

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Notice that brings up another
of my unsaved documents.

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At which point, I'll just
press the N key this time

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to avoid saving the changes.

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And then finally, I don't
want to save the deletion

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of my name either, so I'll
press the N key once again

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in order to close everything.

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And now I can walk away from my machine,

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whether it's public or private,

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with the knowledge that my
artwork is safe and sound.

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And that's how you
close all open documents

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and decide for yourself if you

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want to save the changes
here inside Illustrator.