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save as missing in lion

For those of us who make modifications to a document on a regular basis, but need to retain the previous versions, or who need to keep the same revised document in several places, the removal of "Save As" is a disaster. In order to save as, you must, apparently, first export the document as a WORD or PDF, then after doing that, close the pages document, (Then a save as comes up,) allowing one save as and automatically closing the document. I have a series of files that i must keep in several locations, and they all change weekly, but I must be able to reference past copies as well. It aqppears that the only way to do this is to buy WORD and forget about Pages. Surely this must be a mistake by a committee who does not do word processing, or am I alone in this type of use?

I WORK, Pages-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 25, 2011 12:00 PM

270 replies

Feb 2, 2012 3:44 AM in response to get2

Been ranting for some time on how much I dislike Lion and promising I would spend a weekend downgrading to SNow Leopard. Well just lost a whole pile of changes to a document because of the missing "save as". Did you know when you create a duplicate it save the version of the document you were working on. So if you make some changes, like delete a whole load of stuff, then do duplicate and save, ie. trying to replicate save as, all the changes in your original document are saved, even though you didn't ask it too.

I am clearly an official fuddy duddy, after 20 years of working with a particular type of workflow around "save as" I am just too old to change, so my choice is to stick with snow leopard and let the world go by. Aghhhhhhhhhh.

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

Feb 2, 2012 4:16 AM in response to Phoebe Bright

(1) at last someone recognizing that he was ranting !

(2) OSX 10.7.3 is delivered.

Neither Preview nor TextEdit retrieve Save As…

I may understand that someone decide to stay with 10.6.8 but this means that he will stay with machines delivered before july 2011 because since every ones are delivered with 10.7.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

Feb 2, 2012 7:53 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Please don't upgrade to 10.7.3 anyone.

Wait until the flood of people reporting problems gets some sort of resolution.

The reported problems are quite serious and debilitating.

Peter

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

Feb 2, 2012 8:04 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

I don't remember how many times I wrote that the unique serious way to update is to use the combo one.

It's the unique way to be free of possible conflicts with third party products.

Those behaving this way don't see CUI CUI CUI . 😉

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1484

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

Feb 2, 2012 9:06 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Not according to the forum.

People are reporting that this time it doesn't guarrantee you will not get the problems.

Peter

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

Feb 2, 2012 9:11 AM in response to PeterBreis0807

Which forum ?

The one which I entered said that combo behave well.

And it's what it did for me 😉

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

Feb 2, 2012 9:51 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3703113?start=0&tstart=0

Some of the later posters say the Combo install did not fix it for them.

Peter

Feb 2, 2012 12:15 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

I've lost track of how many times someone has disagreed with your assesment. You seem quite determined to make everyone everyone in

this thread believe they are wrong. And calling is wind mills? Rude. Respond as you wish; I am unsubscribing from this thread.

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

Feb 2, 2012 12:23 PM in response to cstreater

You are free to write your advice. I'm free to give mine.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

Walt K

Level 4

2,946 points

Feb 2, 2012 1:16 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

My wife used to call me a "Stubborn German!" but then she had never met you and didn't know what the French were like. 😁

Blessings, my friend.

Walt

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,819 points

Feb 2, 2012 1:20 PM in response to Walt K

Hello

I wrote several times that I am pig headed.

No hope for a change !

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 2 février 2012

iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2

My Box account is : http://www.box.com/s/00qnssoyeq2xvc22ra4k

Walt K

Level 4

2,946 points

Feb 2, 2012 1:50 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Yvan,

🙂 😁 😝 😉 😎 😀 😍

Walt

Csound1

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Feb 2, 2012 1:52 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

Please don't upgrade to 10.7.3 anyone.

Wait until the flood of people reporting problems gets some sort of resolution.

The reported problems are quite serious and debilitating.

Peter

Please ignore this advice, backup your machine (standard for all upgrades) use the combo and go for it, Peter may be having problems but as for the flood? my feet are dry thanks.

get2

Level 1

4 points

Feb 2, 2012 3:21 PM in response to cstreater

It's unfortunate that people take this stuff personally. It's one thing to be passionate about your opinions. It's another to believe yours are the only ones that are valid. The delete key works quite well. I don't appreciate receiving emails on this thread of people expressing their dissatisfaction with each other. It diminishes the value of this as a place to get support. None of us caused the problem, and it's Apple's responsibility to fixi it IF THEY CARE.

Please stay on point...which is to post problems, and solutions you've discovered to work around them. Thanks.

Feb 2, 2012 5:14 PM in response to Csound1

Csound1 wrote:

PeterBreis0807 wrote:

Please don't upgrade to 10.7.3 anyone.

Wait until the flood of people reporting problems gets some sort of resolution.

The reported problems are quite serious and debilitating.

Peter

Please ignore this advice, backup your machine (standard for all upgrades) use the combo and go for it, Peter may be having problems but as for the flood? my feet are dry thanks.

I am not having the problem either (my feet are very dry) because I am not foolish enough to chance it for no real gain.

If you want to join the ranks of those who are struggling to get their Macs into working order and unable in some cases to even get at their keyboards, go for it.

Meanwhile I suggest waiting for Apple to sort the problems out.

Peter

btw Love your single point perspective.

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