Bless you, Ricardo!!!!!!! lol Cheers, Donna On Jan 4, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi Matthew, > > although this doesn't bother me, I think your missing the point. You really > can't compare stop interacting, pressing VO right arrow about 5 times, and > arrowing through a menu to do something to pressing command shift S. Does > the first take long? No. But its much more to do, and its not very > intuitive when compared to how things use to be. The real heart of the > matter is, there was absolutely no need to get rid of save as. It has > absolutely no baring on auto save. You don't take away things like that just > for the sake of change. Especially when you replace it with a less efficient > way of performing the same task. Its like having someone circle their block > 3 times before entering there home just because they changed the locks. One > have nothing to do with the other but, your made to do more work when you > shouldn't have to. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > >> 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. >> 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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