# Open

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# Open

This File menu command opens one or more previously saved documents.

The keyboard shortcut for Open is Ctrl+O (Windows) or O (Mac).

When you choose Open, a dialog box appears showing a view of your disk.

1.Navigate to the folder containing your document(s).

2.Click a name to highlight the document you want to open.

3.Hold down the Shift key (Macintosh) or Ctrl key (Windows) while clicking additional document names to open more than one document at a time.

4.Click Open or double-click the name of the document.

The chosen documents open on your desktop.

In Windows, you can use a command-line flag to determine what folder appears in the dialog box the first time you choose the Open command.