Save documents

[Guest]

Who never experienced the disappointing experience to save a document
overwriting the one used as template??
To limit this problem it would be useful to have, in the message window "Do
you want to save the changes to Document?", a fourth button, Save as...,
other than Yes, No and Cancel.
I believe this would remember to the writer that he started by another
document, and then he would choose Save as.

Apologize if I wrote this post in the wrong forum: I searched the
possibility, existing in Office Discussion Groups, to post suggestions to
Microsoft, but I wasn't able to find it for Windows.

 

[oldsman]

this sounds like a very general question, so i think its in the right
place.

i have a very general solution to your situation.....
assuming that you use a particular document as a template
only...meaning you will not want to change it often or ever....you can
simply change its attribute in windows. right-click and choose
properties...tick the "read only" box and apply...the next time you try
to alter that particular document, windows will have a fit and pop up a
"save as" window.
of course you should experiment with a dummy file of your own making to
test this....
it is after all, a very general suggestion...

best of luck

 

[Bob I]

1. The Office group is microsoft.public.office.misc
2. No matter how many roadblocks you put up, someone will run thru them
and want one more installed.

Set your template to READ-ONLY