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Subject:Re: Doing Save As From:Elizabeth Ross <beth -at- VCUBED -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:05:19 -0400
The "Save" command will save the changes made to the file. The "Save As"
command replaces the old file completely. This was illustrated by my post
regarding FrameMaker a day or two ago (the one about missing graphics).
"Save" is kind of like taking white-out to a document. The original text is
still there but the computer knows not to show it. "Save As" will remove the
original text completely. Of course, renaming the file and/or saving it in
different file formats are functions that "Save As" is also used for.
Elizabeth Ross
Technical Writer
V3 Semiconductor Corp.
beth -at- vcubed -dot- com http://www.vcubed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Laura Bell <writer -at- WELL -dot- COM>
| None of you have hit on the direct specifics of this. There is always a
| "save" and there is "save as". The purpose of save as is not "save the
| task." The purpose is to offer the keyboarder the oppoprtunity to save
| the work either with another name other than was inserted with the "save"
| command and/or saving it in another format other than the one it is being
| composed on in.
