Microsoft Word 2000 and 'Save As' option

[Summer1]

With the Word 2000 version, when I have filename 'X' and I make modifications
and 'save as' filename 'Y' with a new filename, it creates filename 'y' and
also keeps the original filename 'x.'

I am pretty sure that with previous versions, 'save as' only changed the
'file name' from 'X' to 'Y' and 'overrode' the original file instead of
duplicating it.

Am I correct?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

With the Word 2000 version, when I have filename 'X' and I make modifications
and 'save as' filename 'Y' with a new filename, it creates filename 'y' and
also keeps the original filename 'x.'

I am pretty sure that with previous versions, 'save as' only changed the
'file name' from 'X' to 'Y' and 'overrode' the original file instead of
duplicating it.

Am I correct?

Not in my experience. (Although the original file might get
overwritten with some, if not all, of the changes, if one has enabled
Word's AutoSave feature.


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[Pegasus [MVP]]

With the Word 2000 version, when I have filename 'X' and I make
modifications
and 'save as' filename 'Y' with a new filename, it creates filename 'y'
and
also keeps the original filename 'x.'

I am pretty sure that with previous versions, 'save as' only changed the
'file name' from 'X' to 'Y' and 'overrode' the original file instead of
duplicating it.

Am I correct?

The experts in a Word or Office newsgroup could probably you. You're
currently in a Windows newsgroup.

 

[Greg Russell]

With the Word 2000 version, when I have filename 'X' and I make modifications
and 'save as' filename 'Y' with a new filename, it creates filename 'y' and
also keeps the original filename 'x.'

I am pretty sure that with previous versions, 'save as' only changed the
'file name' from 'X' to 'Y' and 'overrode' the original file instead of
duplicating it.

Am I correct?

No, not at all. It has always saved the "save as" as a new file. Furthermore
it will never be the way you suggest, in any application of any kind in any
operating system of any kind.

 

[Serge]

With the Word 2000 version, when I have filename 'X' and I make modifications
and 'save as' filename 'Y' with a new filename, it creates filename 'y' and
also keeps the original filename 'x.'

I am pretty sure that with previous versions, 'save as' only changed the
'file name' from 'X' to 'Y' and 'overrode' the original file instead of
duplicating it.

Am I correct?

No!

Try "Rename" and make sure you keep the same file extension.

You can access "Rename" from the Menue or Right Click with the mouse.

It does work for me.

Serge

ps: I have Microsoft Word 2003 though.

 

[Ian D]

With the Word 2000 version, when I have filename 'X' and I make
modifications
and 'save as' filename 'Y' with a new filename, it creates filename 'y'
and
also keeps the original filename 'x.'

I am pretty sure that with previous versions, 'save as' only changed the
'file name' from 'X' to 'Y' and 'overrode' the original file instead of
duplicating it.

Am I correct?

No. The purpose of "save as" is to save a new copy of a file under
a new file name. It's been that way since the first MS-DOS apps
that used "File" menus. Besides assigning names to new files, it
allows the saving of modified copies of existing files without affecting
the original files.

 

[Summer1]

Thanks all.

No. The purpose of "save as" is to save a new copy of a file under
a new file name. It's been that way since the first MS-DOS apps
that used "File" menus. Besides assigning names to new files, it
allows the saving of modified copies of existing files without affecting
the original files.


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