Memory sticks have loads of useful purposes no matter what type of person you are or what your job is. You can store all your favourite music on them, use it to transfer projects or essays into school, college or university from home or you could use it to keep certain documents or information safe from prying eyes. But using one is not always the most simplest thing to do.
When it comes to choosing your memory stick, you need to decide what size is going to suit your lifestyle. They come in a variety of sizes and their memory capacity is stated in gigabytes (GB). The bigger the gigabyte number, the more data it can hold.
Get into the habit of backing up your new work every day. You never know when disaster is going to strike and you could end up losing a week’s worth of important work.
Now to start using your memory stick, then insert it into the USB port that should be located on the side of your laptop. If you have a desktop computer then the USB ports should be on the front of your hard drive tower. If you can’t spot it then have a look round the back.
A little window should open that gives you a number of options that you can do with your memory stick. You should click ‘View files in folder’. This will open up your memory stick to show you everything that is saved on it. If you have the file opened up that contains the documents you want to back up, then you can just highlight these and drag and drop them into the memory stick folder. They should copy over.
If you want to save the documents directly then all you need to do is open the document. Select ‘file’ from the top left hand corner of the screen and click ‘save as’. Then find your memory stick from the drop down list of files and then select save as. Once your files are saved, just remove your memory stick and take it wherever you want.
When it comes to choosing your memory stick, you need to decide what size is going to suit your lifestyle. They come in a variety of sizes and their memory capacity is stated in gigabytes (GB). The bigger the gigabyte number, the more data it can hold.
Get into the habit of backing up your new work every day. You never know when disaster is going to strike and you could end up losing a week’s worth of important work.
Now to start using your memory stick, then insert it into the USB port that should be located on the side of your laptop. If you have a desktop computer then the USB ports should be on the front of your hard drive tower. If you can’t spot it then have a look round the back.
A little window should open that gives you a number of options that you can do with your memory stick. You should click ‘View files in folder’. This will open up your memory stick to show you everything that is saved on it. If you have the file opened up that contains the documents you want to back up, then you can just highlight these and drag and drop them into the memory stick folder. They should copy over.
If you want to save the documents directly then all you need to do is open the document. Select ‘file’ from the top left hand corner of the screen and click ‘save as’. Then find your memory stick from the drop down list of files and then select save as. Once your files are saved, just remove your memory stick and take it wherever you want.
