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marathonmax
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Jul 09, 2019

How to disable New save dialog

I already hated Office's Save and Open dialog boxes for a number of reasons. 1) They are not OS standard and thus not the same across all apps (also working on Mac where all open/save dialogs ARE the...
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NDS3010
Copper Contributor
Aug 04, 2019

marathonmax 

Don’t know if you figured it out, found this at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-save-as-on-the-file-menu-cf7536a3-6842-4056-b9cc-443a7f44b104.

 

If you're used to using the Save As dialog box from earlier versions of Office, you can go back to using that. Click File > Options > Save, and then check the Don’t show the Backstage when opening or saving files box. The setting applies to all your Office programs. If you want to use the Save As dialog box without making a setting across Office programs, just press F12 instead of Ctrl+S when you save a file.

 

Hope it helped.

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jtmss
Copper Contributor
Feb 07, 2020

NDS3010 , the question was about the new save dialog, not the backstage. Is there a way to diable the new save dialog so we can use Ctrl + S to get to the old save dialog (rather than having to use a new/different shortcut in F12)?

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    NDS3010
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 07, 2020

    jtmss If i understand your question correctly, then i think that this is the change your looking for. When i press CTRL + s, on a unsaved document, with the "Don't show the Backstage....." option enabled, then i get the old style save as.. dialog.

     

    Attached is a recording from Windows Steps Recorder, showing what it does at my PC. The file is zipped, cant post MHTML files here.

     

    Edit: you can click on the screenshots to enlarge the picture.

     

    Is this is not what your looking for, then i'm not sure i understand what you are looking for. 

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      jtmss
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 07, 2020

      NDS3010 , thanks for the detailed instructions. I had accidentally unchecked (rather than checked) the "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts" CheckBox. I still get the Backstage when I click on "Save As"; guess I'll just have to learn to use F12.

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        MikaNo1325
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 04, 2024
        Eh, the new Save As (F12) dialog does not provide option to create new folders by default:
        - It shows the folder, in which the file is saved (in my case - I want to Save As...).
        - But in the folders pane on the left side, the "Quick Access" line is selected and there is no button for "New Folder".
        - A workaround is to click on some real folder name in the folders pane - but then again: the preselected folder was correct and by clicking on any of the shortcuts in folders pane, I effectively change dir to that other folder.

        Crazy. Why simply not the old proven "File // Save As // Browse" dialog window?

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