What Is a Windows Dialog Box?

Video Transcript

"Hi! I am Ross. Thanks for visiting expertvillage.com. What can we do with computer files? Let’s find out. Let’s talk about Open Dialogue Boxes. They’re similar to Windows Explorer, in that they let you navigate to files. For instance, here is a tool tip in the word processor. I’ll click open, and this is the open dialogue box. In there, you see the same files that Windows Explorer was showing from My Documents. My Documents is the button that is depressed here, showing its contents. I can click My Computer, and it’s show me the C drive and other drives, or I can just click Desktop and see that. There is My Documents, which I could open. I’m going to go right into My Documents from here. Here are the files now. The thing to know about an Open Dialogue Box is the filter. I have had it before where people say my file it’s gone, it’s been deleted. Well, the thing you want to check is down here, files of type. This is your filter, it’s saying show all files. But if I want to see just my word processing files, in this case, I’m using open office. Here is the open document text, which is OTT, that’s the template and then ODT is the actual document. So I look for ODTs. I have that selected for files of type, and it shows me only those files. If I had a .doc document in here, it wouldn’t show up right now, and you may think it has been deleted or removed. But what I could do is go back up here to all files and it shows everything. "