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How to disable New save dialog
jtmss I have been looking, and i can't find a option to disable the backstage when using "save as". Guess the F12 shortcut is the most efficient solution anyway, though it will take some getting used to.
NDS3010The goog old “Save As” still exists. It just isn’t anywhere in the ribbon. But it can be easily put again in place.
1‐ In the Quick Access Toolbar (near the top left corner of the window, where the undo and redo commands are), click on the little downward triangle.
2‐ In the menu that opens, select down there “More Commands”. You will go directly to a section of the “Word Options” settings windows, named “Customize Quick Access Toolbar”.
3‐ In the right side of this window, just bellow “Choose command”, you will see a dropdown box with “More frequent commands” select. Bellow it, there is a list box with several commands in alphabetical order. Roll them down until you see the “Save As” command.
4‐ Select the “Save As” command in the list box do the left and click the “Add” button near the center of the window, and the “Save As” command will show up in list box to the right, just below the “Redo” command.
5‐ You can change the position of the “Save As” command among the others in this list box using the “Move Up” and “Move Down” buttons (mini‐triangles pointing upwards and downwards) just to the right. You can do this to any other command in this list box, by the way.
6‐ Click the “Ok” button in the lower right corner of the window and you are done. Now, the “Save As” command appears near the “Undo” and “Redo” buttons in the Quick Access Toolbar.
Note that, when you pause the cursor on the command you just added, the label “Save As (12)” shows up, indicating that this is the “Save As” that is called when you press the F12 key, the one that doesn’t use the infamous backstage.
- This did it. I have hated this feature for a year now and now... SOLVED!
Sairjohn I don't understand the purpose of all those instructions. The default behavior of the F12 key is to open the Save As dialog.
jtmss Each person has their own prefered ways to use computers, softwares, and the like. Some people like to use keystrokes, others, mouse clicks to issue commands. For the second ones, I just provided a way to restore an old version of the “Save As” button (one that opens the “Save As” dialog) in the interface, above the ribbon. And it’s a very easy, simple and quick way to do it, indeed, although I went in much detail so that even beginners could understand it. (And also learn a very effective way to change the interface and put any command one needs right away, even commands absent from the ribbon.)
- Of note, we switched o
to libreoffice over this. Had clients who could not use their computers.
Now have another client that needs your office, and we were going to find another copy of office 2013... this backstage thing really is disruptive, we had no idea what document we were working on, saw no text of the document to help prompt us with a good name... and it didn't let us know where it was being saved, so you threw away so many office purchases, and lost trust with the subscription.
