"Save As" function dropped from menu

[marthab]

Within the last several weeks I noticed that the File option "Save As"
is no longer available in my Word 2004 version. I didn't notice if
this occurred after loading a new version, but I've confirmed that I
am current with updates and am operating under OSX version 11.3.4.
Does anyone know of a patch for this problem?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Make sure you didn't accidentally turn on "Word 5.1 Menus". Look under
View to see if there's a check next to that option. If that isn't the
problem:

If you go to Tools | Customize Toolbars/Menus, select the Menu Bar, and
click Reset, it should set all your main menus and built-in toolbars back to
the default.

If you have customized your menus or toolbars, you may want to explore the
Tools | Customize, Commands dialog, and drag the commands you are missing
back to the toolbars/menus yourself, rather than wipe out your
customizations by clicking Reset.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Within the last several weeks I noticed that the File option "Save As"
is no longer available in my Word 2004 version. I didn't notice if
this occurred after loading a new version, but I've confirmed that I
am current with updates and am operating under OSX version 11.3.4.
Does anyone know of a patch for this problem?

You don' need no steenkin' patches.

Word's menus are so customisable you can do it by accident.

To retrieve Save-as, and put it bak where God intended.
Tools» Customize » Customize Toolbars/Menus
Note that a ridiculous little toolbar that mimics your real menu bar
appears. Confirm that 'save as' does not appear in the 'file' menu of
that one either.
If it does, panic and ask again. You have discovered a new and
wonderful undocumented feature.
Now click on the 'commands' selector of the still open Customize
Toolbars/Menus pane. Choose 'file' from the categories list. Then drag
'save as...' out of the commands list to..
(you guessed it)
....to the ridiculous little toolbar and the button therein called 'file'
Drop the save as just below 'save'.
And all will be right with the world. OK your way back to the real
world, and if, when next you exit Word, you are prompted to save the
changes in normal, answer yes.

This description of how to fix it, plus the fact that you needed it, is
a fine example of what is wrong with GUI interfaces to these newfangled
calculation engines sometimes known as computers. It is so hard to
describe in words a sequence of actions to rectify something that
should never have needed rectifying. Why oh why permit the standard
menu bar to be altered? Why oh why have such a baroque way of doing so,
and such an unintuitive way of undoing the mess.

Which reminds me. If you have never knowingly customized your menus and
toolbars, bipping the reset button puts all the menu items back where
they should have been without all that monkey business described above.

Back in the days of real man's computers, you'd type
EWnewfilename.ext$EC$$
and that would be the whole job done.
Who needed menus?

 

[Elliott Roper]

Which reminds me. If you have never knowingly customized your menus and
toolbars, bipping the reset button puts all the menu items back where
they should have been without all that monkey business described above.

Whoops. I should have been clearer about finding the right reset
button. I see Daiya's done a better job of describing that, and she
remembered the 5.1 menus thing too!
We are a great team. I do the rants and Daiya does the sensible advice.

I think ripping the 5.1 menus off the view menu is the best use of the
menu customization feature! Don't forget to erase the keyboard shortcut
for it.