Hi everyone. Seems like a mountain is being made out of a mole hill here. The instructions given don't seem to be that difficult at all. Stop interacting with the text area, VO left to versions menu button and activating it, find the duplicate option and activating it, and finally saving the document with a new name. I think it just seems like more time than it'll actually take really. Just my thoughts, Matthew Campbell. On 2012-01-04, at 4:14 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Thank you for this information. It's helpful, but is beyond tedius. I > wouldn't suppose Apple would consider restoring > previous behavior? This versions thing is just too weird and cumbersome to be > practical. Command s and command shift s should > still be available in my opinion. This is another reason why I still prefer > to use my PC over the mac for many tasks: while > many things are technicly possible on the mac, it feels as though you have to > jump through hoops to accomplish them. I mean, > your message and Ray's above it show at least 5 steps for either saving a > different version of a file or restoring 1. I'm > sure that the process becomes second nature with practice, but it's just so > much more complicated than in wordpad or even > full MS word on the PC. Just my opinion of course, but I certainly appreciate > you explaining how this whole procedure works > under lion. > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:05 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Is there really not a Save As option in Text Edit? > > 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 > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > 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 >>> rwalker...@gmail.com >>> 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Goodin, Donna >>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:38 PM >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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