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WHAT IS THE CORRECT PROCEEDURE WHEN USING SAVE TO SAVE A DOC IN LION?

WHAT IS THE CORRECT PROCEEDURE USING SAVE IN LION TO SAVE A DOCUMENT... I KEEP MESSING IT UP AND IT IS CONFUSING?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

Posted on Sep 20, 2011 8:07 PM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2011 8:12 PM

Saving a document hasn't changed except that each time you use the Save option Lion will save the current document as a different version of the same document.


However, there is no Save As option with Lion. To Save As you first select the option to Duplicate the document. Then Save the duplicate. Since it's a new document you will be prompted for a new file name, if you wish, as well as the opportunity to change the location where the document will be saved. If you do not change the name of the document, then you will get an alert that an there is an existing document with the same name.


See OS X Lion- About Auto Save and Versions

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Sep 20, 2011 8:12 PM in response to rick707

Saving a document hasn't changed except that each time you use the Save option Lion will save the current document as a different version of the same document.


However, there is no Save As option with Lion. To Save As you first select the option to Duplicate the document. Then Save the duplicate. Since it's a new document you will be prompted for a new file name, if you wish, as well as the opportunity to change the location where the document will be saved. If you do not change the name of the document, then you will get an alert that an there is an existing document with the same name.


See OS X Lion- About Auto Save and Versions

Sep 21, 2011 7:12 AM in response to Kappy

It's worth remembering that this new method of saving files applies only to Apple software (and possibly others but I have not encountered them). Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac has the old method with Save As, also Photoshop, InDesign, REAL Studio, Final Cut, and even Safari... 🙂. No doubt MS Office will get around to changing to the new system.😢


I have stopped using TextEdit and Preview.

Sep 21, 2011 7:22 AM in response to Kappy

Oh... come on now guys! I was just in another thread where someone was talking about an album that came out 20 years ago that seemed like just yesterday to me. Over the past few months my eyes have decided that they are going to refuse to read anything closer than maybe a foot in front of me... that's not to mention the increasing gray hair and thining. For the first time last week, I was at my barber and he decided to trim the ear hair that I didn't know I had! I think I'm going through more changes now at 44 than I did at puberty!

Sep 21, 2011 9:36 AM in response to Allan Eckert

Yep, they don't usually want to do anything until the cataract starts to impair your vision. Different rates of development for different people. I can tell you from my recent experience that the difference is dramatic if you had bad eyesight to start with. Without glasses my vision was well beyond legally blind, and now I sit in front of the computer screen without any glasses. I only need them for distance vision - I was severely nearsighted.

WHAT IS THE CORRECT PROCEEDURE WHEN USING SAVE TO SAVE A DOC IN LION?

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