Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Guys. I noticed that VoiceOver seems to talk more than I'm used to, I guess because of saving the file when you make changes. I thought about turning off this feature, and I'm glad I didn't. It saved me more than once when I messed up my file and then proceeded to save out the bad changes.

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, 1. Open a beautiful document to edit. 2. Edit it and make a mess. 3. You don't want to save the mess of course, so: 4. Hit the file menu, and choose: revert to saved. 5. Then choose the last opened version, button, from the dialog that came when you hit revert to saved. Now you got what

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, if you have a document that has not been saved before then command+w will indeed bring up this dialog. But if you open an already existing document and edit somehting in it and then do command+w then it does not sk you wether or not you want to save it just does. I think i will just turn thi

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Paul Erkens
Adding to Mike's answer: what option command q does, is make the application discard its current state of its windows. Next time you open this app, it won't auto load a dozen things you happened to have open. To read where I got this: http://www.macworld.com/article/161366/2011/07/override_resume

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
When the "do you want to save," dialog comes up, just hit the space bar. This will accept the non-default choice of "don't save." It's the quickest way I've found to exit this. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My ho

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Mike Arrigo
There's no way to totally disable the feature, though I wish there was. However, if you press command w to close the window, you will usually get the dialog asking if you want to save the changes, at that point you can indicate that you don't want to save them. Also, when quitting applications,

Re: what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, to turn this off, go to system preferences and you will find it in general. But, to close a document without saving, press command W and select don't save. Then press command Q to quit the application all together. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.m

what to do if you dont want to save changes in existing doc

2011-09-25 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, With pages and textedit apple now autosaves changes, especially if a file already exists. But what do i have to do if i make changes in a document and decide i dont want to save them? Is it possible to disable this autosave feature alltogether? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this