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- [Instructor] In this
movie, I'll show you

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how to close all open
documents on the Mac.

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If you're working on a PC,

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you can go ahead and
skip to the next chapter.

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So here I have a total
of three documents open,

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as you can see indicated
by these three title tabs.

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For the sake of demonstration,

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I'm going to make changes
to each one of these files.

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So I'll start off by clicking
on this big numeral one

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with my black arrow cursor,

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and then I'll press the Delete key

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in order to get rid of it.

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Now I'll go ahead and switch
over to that six-page document

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that I didn't really do anything to,

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and I'll go ahead and draw on it

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using, let's say, the rectangle tool,

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if only because it's an easy tool to use.

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And so I'll just go ahead
and draw a rectangle like so,

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and then I'll go up to the
Stroke value right here.

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I'll click on this
down-pointing arrow head

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and I'll change it to,
let's say, four points

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so that we can see the outline.

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And then I'll switch
back to the black arrow

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up here at the top of the toolbox,

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and I'll click off the
rectangle to deselect it.

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And now I'll go ahead and switch
over to the Welcome screen

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and I'll click on my name down here

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in the bottom right region
of the illustration,

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and I'll press the Delete key
once again to get rid of it.

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All right, so I've now managed
to make unsaved changes

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to each one of these documents,

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and you can see that's the case

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because we have these tiny asterisks

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after each one of the filenames

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up here at the top of the screen.

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Now what I'm going to tell you is

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this is a very dangerous
way to leave your computer.

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You definitely do not want
to walk away from Illustrator

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for any period of time
at a public machine,

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that is one at your workplace

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where somebody else may use it as well,

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because if someone decides
to close your illustration

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by clicking on this little X

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on the left side of the title tab,

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they're going to get this warning

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that's asking them whether
they should save your changes.

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Nine people out of 10 are going to think,

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Oh yeah, sure, I'll go ahead
and click the Save button

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because after all, I'm sure
Bob or Phyllis, or whoever

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was doing some work and wants to save it.

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One person out of 10 is
going to do the right thing

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and hit the Cancel button,

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and then they're going
to go up to the File menu

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and choose the Save As
command, just to be sure,

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so that they don't overwrite
your original document.

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But what no one's going to
do, based on my experience,

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is click on what we want to see happen,

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which is the Don't Save button.

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And so, if they go ahead and click on Save

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and you don't have a backup of this file,

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then you've just lost some
important information,

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namely, in this case, my own name.

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So what you want to do
is close all those files.

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If you're going to be
gone for even an hour,

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definitely a day, close all those files

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and you decide for yourself

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whether you want to save these changes.

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And let me show you what that looks like.

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Notice up here in the File menu

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that we have a command called Close,

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but we don't have
anything called Close All,

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which means that I'd have
to choose this command,

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or click on this little
Close box right there,

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three times in order to
close these three files.

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Well, there's a few ways around that.

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One is to go over to
the Illustrator CC menu

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and choose Quit Illustrator.

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But that's not only going
to close your documents,

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it's going to quit the
application as well,

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which probably isn't what you want to do.

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Another way to work is to
go up to the Window menu

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and turn that Application
Frame command off,

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and that way you're going to
see each one of your documents

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in an independent floating window.

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Next, what you do is you
go up to the Window menu,

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choose Arrange, and choose
Consolidate All Windows

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so that they all appear inside
of a single floating window,

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which in my case is called Welcome.ai,

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and then you can go ahead
and close that window

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by clicking this Close box,

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and that will close each of
your three documents in order.

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Now I want to make it perfectly clear

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how this alert message works.

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You're going to see it

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for each and every one of these documents.

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If you click the Save button,

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you're going to save your changes

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and then close the document.

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If you click Don't Save, you're
going to close the document

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without saving your changes,

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and that is going to be your
one and only chance right there

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to save any changes, because
once you click Don't Save,

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your changes are permanently gone.

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And then finally, you can
click the Cancel button,

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and that's going to cancel
the entire operation.

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So as you can see here,
none of my files has closed.

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All right, so that's one way to work,

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but let's say you like
that application frame.

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I really do, because I like to cover up

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everything in the background,
and I really don't like to see

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that bright title bar in
the middle of the interface.

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Then notice, under the File
menu, this Close command

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has a keyboard shortcut of Command + W.

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That's a really old-school
Macintosh keyboard shortcut.

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It dates back to the
original MacPaint in 1984,

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and Adobe has carried it on as well.

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And it's made better by adding

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a top-secret hidden keyboard shortcut

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of Command + Option + W,
which closes everything.

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So let me show you what that looks like.

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I'll go ahead and press
Command + Option + W

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and I will get the first
of my three alert messages,

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at which point I can
click the Save button,

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the Don't Save button, or Cancel.

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Each one of them has a keyboard shortcut.

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It's S for Save.

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It's D for Don't Save.

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So just S and D, you don't
have to press any modifier key.

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Or Esc, that is the
Escape key, for Cancel.

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And so because I do not want
to lose my name in this file,

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I'm going to go ahead
and click on Don't Save.

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Then I'll be asked about this document.

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I don't really care about
it, it's just a demo file,

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so I'll go ahead and press the D key

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for Don't Save this time around.

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And this guy I also don't care about

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because it's an extra version of the file,

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so I'll press the D key once again.

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And I now have no files open,

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which means that I am safe
to walk away from Illustrator

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without worrying that anyone

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is going to tamper with the
content of my documents.

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And that is how you go about
closing all open documents

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here inside Illustrator on the Mac.