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In this lesson, you'll learn how to quickly open and close a program in Windows.
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Click the <b>Next</b> button, above, to continue.
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>programs</a> stored on your computer can be opened from the <b>Start</b> menu.
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To open a program, click the <b>Start</b> button <img src="images/stdstart.gif" align=absmiddle>
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>taskbar</a>, point to <b>Programs</b>, point to <b>Accessories</b>, and click <b>WordPad</b>.
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You can use WordPad, a Windows word-processing program, to write letters, reports, and other documents.
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To close WordPad, click the <b>Close</b> button <img src="images/stdclose.gif">
on the <b>WordPad</b> window
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>title bar</a>.
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You now know how to open and close a program in Windows.
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