# Open

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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.