I have a 2018 MacBook Air 13 inch laptop. I'm having difficulty in saving data to a USB. I'm told that my particular model does not have Save As Function. Apparently the older and later models do have a Save As Function. I'm using pages and want to back up my work. I tried the click and drag function to the USB icon that i placed on desktop but my work disappeared from the pages file. Can anyone advise onhow to save to a USB please?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Plug in the USB stick.
Open the Pages document in Pages.
HI BA,
" I'm told that my particular model does not have Save As Function"
By whom? Save as is a function of the operating system, not of the Mac model. It was replaced by Duplicate in Lion (OS X v10.7) to the chagrin of many Mac users, and returned as a 'press option' menu item with the next (if memory serves) OS X version.
Open the File menu.
With the file menu open, press the option key.
On the file menu, "Duplicate" will be replaced with "Save as…"
Select Save as…
In the Save as dialogue, navigate to Finder and select and open the USB stick.
(optional) If you want to save in a specific folder on that stick, find and open the folder.
Click Save.
Done.
Regards,
Barry
Plug in the USB stick.
Open the Pages document in Pages.
HI BA,
" I'm told that my particular model does not have Save As Function"
By whom? Save as is a function of the operating system, not of the Mac model. It was replaced by Duplicate in Lion (OS X v10.7) to the chagrin of many Mac users, and returned as a 'press option' menu item with the next (if memory serves) OS X version.
Open the File menu.
With the file menu open, press the option key.
On the file menu, "Duplicate" will be replaced with "Save as…"
Select Save as…
In the Save as dialogue, navigate to Finder and select and open the USB stick.
(optional) If you want to save in a specific folder on that stick, find and open the folder.
Click Save.
Done.
Regards,
Barry
HIi Brian,
there were a lot of people who thought that when Lion came out AND when the iWork applications (Numbers, Pages & Keynote) went through their 'toss it and rewrite the whole thing' brouhaha in 2013. Progress took a while, but for the most part, they're better than the '09 versions now.
Barry
Thank you Barry, appreciate your help. I think, with regards to saving documents, apple should have stuck to the old maxim: "if it aint broke don't fix it."
Thank you
Brian.
Saving data to a USB
