Save icon

"Imagine how well you'd play the piano if you had to reach for a mouse and toolbar icon every minute."

This is not a good analogy; pianists often have to turn the pages of the music, by moving a hand away from the keyboard, and we do so for the most part without interrupting the flow of the music at all. 😉

OTOH most concert pianists I've seen using written music during a performance also have a page turner to turn the pages. The pianist keeps his/her hands on or near the keyboard, except for flourishes at places dictated by the phrasing of the music, not the occurrence of page turns dictated by printing economies.

In general, when writing, I's side with Peter on this one, although I can see that someone whose muscles have been trained to use the mouse might reasonably disagree.

The channel for feature requests is via Provide Pages Feedback, found in the Pages menu (or reached by clicking the link.

Regards,

Barry

OrangeMarlin wrote:
Lastly, if Apple had chosen to make an autosave feature available, I wouldn't have even asked this question.

I found this interesting discussion through a search for 'save icon' in Pages. I support orangemarlin on this - not having a save icon in the tool bar ia a real pain! (and if that makes me a "doozie" so be it). If I am resizing shapes and so on in a document then my hand is already on the mouse; I don't want to have to move it to a keyboard just to save. Even when I'm typing text (in Appleworks), I will move my hand to the mouse to save and pause for thought while I do it.

This thread has answered my question though and I am grateful to those of you who provided answers and info to the original poster.

"Imagine how well you'd play the piano if you had to reach for a mouse and toolbar icon every minute." This is not a good analogy; pianists often have to turn the pages of the music, by moving a hand away from the keyboard, and we do so for the most part without interrupting the flow of the music at all. 😉

We do not have both hands on the mouse, nor the page turning if we are a pianist, the other hand stays busy.

The standard method is thumb on command key, pointer finger on keyboard shortuct, in this case s.

I gather you are an ex PC user, whom I find painful to watch.

For PC users this a pain as the control key can only be managed with your pinky and that is really awkward. So having created the problem, just to be different from Apple, Microsoft went overboard on masses of badly designed icons that take away most of the top of your screen. For years, until they got bigger screens, PC users peered through the tiny porthole in the middle of the screen into what was left of it after being obscured by the completely unnecessary clutter of the "User Interface".

This is the reason the Mac interface looks so clean on the screen.

Pretty sure they meant two hands for the keyboard shortcut, but who cares? My reason for coming to this page was to find out if apple had added a Save icon. I understand and appreciate the reason for the clean looking toolbar, but I think a Save icon is important, if only for psychological reasons (since autosave works pretty well, or so I think.) Just one more icon would not clutter things up. I guess apple has still chosen not to add the option.

There is room for a nice shiny porcelain toilet icon too, but it is not part of the Apple application design library, any more than a Save icon. There are other things that you can hope for that you stand a better chance of realizing than Apple breaking their design history and strategy.