Automatic file name when Saving

[Jetx]

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

When I started using Word v.x when I saved a file, the software took the first words of the document as an automatic file name. So if a heading of my doc was 'My Novel' when I selected Save, the file name box said My Novel.doc.

Since upgrading from my old Mac to my new PowerBook Pro, Word does not prompt with a name, but just brings up a box with .doc.

How can I get Word to go back to prompting a file name? Or if that's too difficult, how to I reset Word to default settings?

Thanks.

 

[John McGhie]

1) Word will suggest a file name if the file does not already have one.

2) If the Title is filled in in File>Properties, Word will use the Title.

3) Otherwise, it will use the first few characters of the text, up to the
first delimiter character. A delimiter is anything that would interrupt a
file name: a period, colon, slash, etc.

So how are you creating this file? If you create a file by copying another
one, 1 and 2 will be true: so no prompting.

Hope this helps

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

When I started using Word v.x when I saved a file, the software took the first
words of the document as an automatic file name. So if a heading of my doc was
'My Novel' when I selected Save, the file name box said My Novel.doc.

Since upgrading from my old Mac to my new PowerBook Pro, Word does not prompt
with a name, but just brings up a box with .doc.

How can I get Word to go back to prompting a file name? Or if that's too
difficult, how to I reset Word to default settings?

Thanks.

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[CyberTaz]

This could also be related to *how* you went about upgrading to the new
Mac... Apple's Migration Assistant doesn't seem to handle some software
"perfectly" every time, and complex suites (such as Office & Adobe) are
among the usual casualties. Make sure you've updated the new installation of
Office to 10.1.9 and that you've repaired disk permissions.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac