What idiot removed Save As?

Save As was removed in Lion but has made a return in Mountain Lion. You do have to hold down the Option/alt key while clicking the File menu for it to appear. There is also a keyboard shortcut.

It's missing on my iMac, too, but not on my other Macs in ML. I haven't had time to troubleshoot it. The keyboard shortcut ⇧ ⌘ ⌥ S does work.

The keyboard shortcut worked for me so Thanks 🙂, but it should be in the File menu all the time and not hidden. 10.8.2 update has apparently restored a save as type function but I can't find it. Read the following article http://tidbits.com/article/13284 which shows it working in simple text. However it doesn't seem to follow in Pages and haven't had stomach to face the dissapointment in numbers. I'd like to know the name of the idiot who messed up the whole Save As finctionality as well. Could it be Craig Federighi the head of software engineering at apple? Is there anyway to un-hide Save as so we don't have to use the alt key?

Second option of course is to forget iWork all together and use Microsoft Office. I never thought I'd ever hear myself saying that but there you go.

Take a look at this article a tuaw.com.

Peggy,

I read that article about a couple of weeks ago and tried it. Although it does perminently place Save as in the File menu, it didn't change the fact that when I used the comand, the changes were also saved to the original document. Mountain Lion worked exactly as before.

Maybe the 10.8.2 update has fixed this.

Save As now seems to work as it should and did in the good old days, as long as you know to press the option key to bring it up in the sub menu. Out of interest, I haven't seen the “Keep changes in original document.” checkbox in any app as mentioned in the 10.8.2 update notes and the tidbits article that I posted earlier. Was it planned originally then ditched in favour of simply restoring "Save As" as it was pre-Lion?

Yes, it has been "fixed" in 10.8.2. But the issue was not with Save As… but that autosave automatically saves any changes & doesn't/didn't "know" to revert to the previous state when Save As… was envoked. Since Lion you have been able to revert to a previous version on files saved to Time Machine.

There is no way to turn autosave off as far as I know. Use versions to revert as I said before. And leave feedback for Pages & OS X.