Thanks, Ricardo.  I have to agree with Missy here, though.  It's unfortunate to 
have to ad that extra step when there's no real need for it.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jan 4, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

> Yup.
> 
> I'm sorry Donna.  I didn't read your post first so I thought you hadn't 
> already saved the document.  This is true there is no save as  as we all know 
> it but, here's what you do. stop interacting with the scroll area in text 
> edit and navigate over to the versions menu button.  In this menu choose 
> duplicate.  Here you will be able to rename or save the document in another 
> format.
> 
> hth
> 
> Ricardo Walker
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> 
> On Jan 4, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Goodin, Donna wrote:
> 
>> One correction, Ricardo.  Command S saves a version.  It does not give you a 
>> Save As Dialog.  And, the document I'm talking about has already been saved, 
>> so I can't get to a Save As dialog by just closing the window.
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>> On Jan 4, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> all you have to do is press command S.  There is really no mystery to this. 
>>>  Also, if you press command w to close the window, you will be presented 
>>> with the save as dialog if you haven't already saved the document.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ricardo Walker
>>> [email protected]
>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
>>> www.mobileaccess.org
>>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'd love answers to this question as well. I had a document where I 
>>>> somehow deleted everything, but figured it wasn't a
>>>> problem because I could just open a previous version. Well, I never did 
>>>> figure out how to do that. Fortunately, the good
>>>> version of the file was still in dropbox and also on my PC, but this is 1 
>>>> of the many reasons I just can't get comfortable
>>>> with word processing on the mac. I don't like or understand this save a 
>>>> version thing, and wish that textedit worked the way
>>>> it did under Snow Leopard. I probably wouldn't use it too much more than I 
>>>> do now, but I'd at least be willing to try if it
>>>> behaved more logically.
>>>> Missy
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] 
>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Goodin, Donna
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:38 PM
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: Is there really not a Save As option in Text Edit?
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a situation wherein I use a certain file in different situations.  
>>>> I would like the option to open the basic file,
>>>> modify the content, and save it with a different filename.  This used to 
>>>> be possible, but the only option I see now for
>>>> saving documents is Save a Version, which uses the original filename.  
>>>> Does anyone know if there's some way to open a Save As
>>>> dialog in Text Edit?
>>>> 
>>>> On a related note, does anyone know if there's a way to view older 
>>>> versions of a file, i.e. could I open a version of this
>>>> file before the last time I saved a version?
>>>> TIA,
>>>> Donna
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