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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...
I too hate this new dialog, it wastes so much time. What is more, I've already configured all my shortcuts, favorites, and pins on the system dialog so that _any_ program I'm in can benefit from them, so Office is actively hostile toward me in this case. This thread caused me to look closer at this persistent annoyance and to go to Options -> Save and turn off "Don't show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts". This has the added benefit of working when clicking the save icon on new documents.
Honestly, this new Backstage thing was getting so annoying I was starting to go to Explorer, right-click, new Word document, and then type my name and then open from there so that I didn't have to deal with all the extra clicks in Word to save something. What a disaster that new UI is, and I'm someone who likes change and keeps everything in OneDrive. That new UI was just so many more clicks to get where I wanted to go and violated mussel memory. If that were the new Windows system dialog, fine, then I can build new mussel memory, but as a one-off is it horrible.
Honestly, this new Backstage thing was getting so annoying I was starting to go to Explorer, right-click, new Word document, and then type my name and then open from there so that I didn't have to deal with all the extra clicks in Word to save something. What a disaster that new UI is, and I'm someone who likes change and keeps everything in OneDrive. That new UI was just so many more clicks to get where I wanted to go and violated mussel memory. If that were the new Windows system dialog, fine, then I can build new mussel memory, but as a one-off is it horrible.