# Open or close a document

You can open Comic Life documents saved on your Mac, in iCloud Drive, on connected servers, and in third-party storage providers. If you can't open a Comic Life document, make sure that you have the latest version of Comic Life. If a document is dimmed and can't be selected, it means the document can't be opened by Comic Life.

Do any of the following:

- Open a document on a Mac: For a Comic Life document, double-click the document name or thumbnail, or drag it to the Comic Life icon in the Dock or Applications folder. You can't open PDFs in Comic Life.
- Open a document you recently worked on: In Comic Life, choose File > Open Recent (from the File menu at the top of your screen). Comic Life shows up to the last ten documents you opened.
- Open a document stored somewhere other than your Mac (such as iCloud Drive): In Comic Life, choose File > Open (from the File menu at the top of your screen). In the dialog, click a location in the sidebar on the left, or click the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog, then choose the location where the document is saved. Double-click the document to open it.

Do one of the following:

- Close the active document: Choose File > Close (from the File menu at the top of your screen), or click the red close button in the corner of the Comic Life window or press Command-W.
- Close all open Comic Life documents: press the Option Key and choose File > Close All (from the File menu at the top of your screen), or choose Comic Life > Quit Comic Life (from the Comic Life menu at the top of your screen). All of your changes are saved.

## See also

Create a document

Save and name a document

Send a copy of a document another format