Sally's computer has Windows 3.1 and she wants to take advantage of the symbolic representation scheme available in Windows 3.1 to organize some files for an important project she is developing for her job as a teacher. She spends a lot of time working on this project and she would like to be able to find all the files related to this project quickly and easily. Sally works on several different computers, including the one she has at home, and having all the files in one places makes it very convenient to copy the files to a diskette and transport them.
Her word processor which is Microsoft Word has been installed in its own directory, called Word. The spreadsheet program she has chosen for this project is Microsoft Excel, and it has been installed in the Excel directory. Because she is going to present this project to a group of teachers she has developed a presentation in Microsoft Powerpoint which is a graphics program which has been installed in the Powerpoint directory on her computer. Sally decides to create a program group in Program Manager called Sally's Project. She doesn't remember how to create a program group because this isn't a task she does very often. She clicks on the help menu and then chooses search from the toolbar. She types in create program group and the help window tells her what she has to do to create a program group. She follows the instructions and creates her Sally's Project program group.
Sally then opens this empty program group and goes back to the help menu to see how to create icons for all her project files. The help file tells her she can create icons from the files in File Manager, so she opens the File Manager program and follows the help instructions to create the icons she wants. Sally then has symbolic representations for all the files involved in her project.