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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="opening">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#reading"/>
    <desc>How to open a document.</desc>
   <link type="seealso" xref="formats"/>
   <link type="seealso" xref="commandline"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" version="0.1" date="2011-09-05" status="final"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>

  </info>

<title>Opening a document</title>

 <p>You can open a document using any one of the following ways:</p>

  <list>
   <item><p> Double-click on the file icon in the <app>File Manager</app>. </p>
    <note style="tip"><p>
     Double clicking opens PDF, PostScript, .djvu, .dvi and Comic Book Archive files in the <app>Document Viewer</app> by default.
     </p></note>
   </item>

   <item><p>Right-click on a file icon in the <app>File Manager</app> and click <guiseq><gui>Open With</gui><gui>Document Viewer</gui></guiseq>.</p>
   </item>
</list>

<p>If a Document View window is already open you can: </p>
 <list>
   <item><p>drag a file icon into the window from the <app>File Manager</app>.  The new file will open in a new window (provided the file is of a file type supported by Document Viewer).</p></item>
  <item><p>choose <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Open</gui></guiseq> from the Menubar. In the Open Document dialog box, choose the file you wish to open, and click <gui>Open</gui>. The file will open in a new window.</p></item>
</list>




</page>
