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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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    annbm01
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 30, 2020

    Thank you. This helped me.

  • jtmss's avatar
    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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    the_Muppet_Owen
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 04, 2019

    Yes you can disable both Backstage and the new save dialog, but what if your only beef is Microsoft shifting the default storage location to OneDrive?

     

    "Well the user can change the default..." - Screw that!  Most of the time users don't know what they are doing when something unexpected happens.  Organizations need the ability to control this stuff - from day 0, not in the next deployment cycle, or after they get X number of complaints.

     

    Ideally Organizations should have the option to freeze the behavior of the software and "Allow" new functionality after it has been risk-assesed and all users retrained.

     

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