Organising your work
The number of files and folders you use can grow quickly over the course of a project. If they鈥檙e not well organised, you can waste a lot of time trying to find what you鈥檙e looking for.
To ensure your work is easy to find, use relevant Anything you save. It could be a document, a piece of music, a collection of data or something else. and A place to store files that are related, eg. all of the files relating to one project. Folders help to keep work organised. Sometimes called a directory. names and a sensible folder structure. It鈥檚 important to use an approach that will be understood by everyone, especially if you鈥檙e working on a group project, so other members of the group will be able to find what they鈥檙e looking for.
This is an example of a project with well-named files, folders and A folder inside another folder.. Good file and folder names instantly tell you what they contain.
File extensions
Files have two parts to their names 鈥 a name and an extension. The purpose of a file extension is to tell the computer what type of file it is. The file extension is typically three or four letters long and is always at the end of a file name. There are hundreds of different file extensions.
Common file extensions
| Extension | File type |
| *.doc | Document |
| *.xls | Spreadsheet |
| *.jpg | Image |
| *.exe | Executable |
| Extension | *.doc |
|---|---|
| File type | Document |
| Extension | *.xls |
|---|---|
| File type | Spreadsheet |
| Extension | *.jpg |
|---|---|
| File type | Image |
| Extension | *.exe |
|---|---|
| File type | Executable |