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Want to resave a document monthly in order to make small change each month but save the previous ones (monthly billing). Is there any way? If not, will Apple issue me a refund so that I can buy Microsoft again? This is a huge billing problem for me!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Hold down the option key as you select Save in the File menu, or command shift s
This will make a duplicate of the file as it currently is.
If you have already made changes to the file but don't want them in the original, select the original file and go:
Menu > File > Revert to > Last Saved
Apple changed this when it set up Auto-Save by default.
IMHO it is very bad User Interface as it is concealed, and expects Users to behave in anticipation which is always bad practice. People do not work that way, they do what is on their mind then save. Further Apple's tiny percentage of users have to learn to behave differently than everyone else and adapt their behaviour according to not just whether they are on MacOS but according to what version of MacOS, subsequently making far more mistakes.
Unfortunately Apple's UI skills and common sense have plummeted on the Mac in recent years, an indication of a change of leadership who seem to want to make their own stamp on the Mac despite they are not quite up to it.
Apple seems determined to kill productivity and whatever work is still being done on Macs, reducing it to a playpen with padded walls, in which they constantly move the furniture for their own amusement.
Peter
thanks a lot!!! super tip!!
Adding to Alan Kren's instructions posted earlier...
Not sure about Mountain Lion, but in the new Mavericks you don't need to hold the Command key in addition to the Option key. Just the Option key will do it
BTW, this is true for most Mac OS X applications. Option plus a menu item will often reveal some hidden extra functionality.
so that you will never get bored or something... 🙂
Alan you are a lifesaver!!!
I go to File and use the "alt" key. Now you can see "save as" option instead of "duplicate"
Great tip, Alan. Worked perfectly.
This is great! Many thanks. Mostly I use LaTeX now a days as I like to have a program that does what I want it to, not what some guy in Cupertino or Redmond wants it to. Occasionally I want to modify an old letter or document as it seems like it would save time. However, in the time spent figuring out how to do the Save As I could have written three new documents (notes actually)! Thanks again to Alan Kren.
BTW: Just holding down the <option> key will do the job on Yosemite.
So helpful!! It's ridiculous that they hide this totally user-friendly command. You have saved me hours of frustration from mistakenly changing info by forgetting to "duplicate" everything BEFORE I change it!!!
Brilliant tip! Thanks, Alan!!
How can we make this default behaviour instead of the far less useful "duplicate?"
Upgraded (FINALLY!) to Yosemite and the Pages upgrade. I sorely miss the "Save As..." menu item, too. But this works flawlessly. Thanks!!
Doesn't work
Doesn't work, if I alter a document then save as with different name it changes the original and I end up with two documents identical with different names
Exactly the point we have been making.
Apple's workflow presumes people in mid inspiration think ahead in anticipation of automatic changes by the computer and pay so much attention to what is happening that they can recall all that has happened should they need to back track or try and stop the changes happening that they didn't want.
Apple's scheme demands that you immediately duplicate your file on first opening it.
Yet even that fails if merely opening the file, as Pages 5 does to Pages '09 files, immediately changes it.
Bad stupid or Stupid bad. Your choice.
Peter
Typical apple, back to front, makes sense really though. Open the original, make a copy of it, then work on the copy. Nothing done to the original so it will close as was, duplicate is now different so save with new name, job done,
Thnx
how do I do a "save as" on Pages?
