Renaming a word document.

[alanl3]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

How do I rename a word document?
There is no rename command.
Thanks in advance.
Alan

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Alan,

You can do a Save As from the File menu and give the new copy a different
name, or you can click outside the document to be in the Finder, click once
on the file name, pause then click once again. The file name is highlighted;
change it as you wish, retaining the ".doc" or ".docx" suffix. Then click
back in the Word document and save; the title bar will show the new file
name.

I'm not using Word 2008. If anything I've said doesn't work, post back and
someone will modify what I've said.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[Jeff Wiseman]

I'm not sure whether the question really was "How do you rename
(re-title) a Word document" or "How do you rename the file name
of a Word document"

When you do a Get Info on a Word file, it will show both of these
values which may or may not be the same.

If the question was really the latter of these two, then Clive's
directions apply. However, if the original question was the
FORMER (i.e., the actual title of the document itself and not the
file name), then with the file opened, go to the
File->Preferences window and look under summary. You'll find the
Title field there that you can edit directly.

I can't remember, but I think that when you create a new blank
file, the default title is given some of the text of the first
sentence in the file.

- Jeff

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Jeff;

Good point - with a couple of little considerations

I believe you meant File> Properties [as opposed to File> Preferences].

Also, the only fields completed automatically are Author & Company which are
determined by the User Information in Preferences. Perhaps you're thinking
of Word's effort to anticipate the file name when you first Save.

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

 

[Jeff Wiseman]

Hi Jeff;

Good point - with a couple of little considerations

I believe you meant File> Properties [as opposed to File> Preferences].

Also, the only fields completed automatically are Author & Company which are
determined by the User Information in Preferences. Perhaps you're thinking
of Word's effort to anticipate the file name when you first Save.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones

Yep, it's the properties. My bad.

When you first do a save-as for a new document that has no title
defined, Word does anticipate BOTH the file name and the title.
If you change the file name in the save_as dialog, it doesn't
change the title from its original anticipated value. You have to
actually set it through the Properties sheet.

If you put in a Title value via the properties sheet prior to the
first save-as, it will use that title value as the anticipated
file name for the document instead of the first line of the file.

So it seems that if you have not inserted a title prior to your
first save, the title field will ALSO be completed automatically.

Also, Word doesn't like that title field to be empty in general.
If you edit a file and delete the title field's contents, anytime
that you attempt a save-as after that will result in the title
field quietly being assigned the first line of text in the file
again. Only this time the default file name for the file to be
saved is the same as the file it is being saved from (instead of
the first line of text as with a new document).