Re: Doing Save As

["Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jaed -at- JAEDWORKS -dot- COM>]

At 11:05 AM -0700 7/21/99, Elizabeth Ross wrote:
>"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.

Um... you don't seem to be the original poster. Unless you are familiar
with the program under discussion, how would you know whether its saves are
done in this manner? Incremental save - which is what you describe, sort of
- is not unusual in PC consumer software, but it's far from the rule. Even
programs that do incremental saves usually do a full save at some point -
usually when the amount of dead space in the file reaches a certain limit.
A general caution not to assume all programs work like the few tools you're
familiar with seems in order.

About the original question:  The people who've pointed out that disabling
Save until the document is first saved is a user interface mistake are, of
course, correct. Some education of the programmers on this matter might be
all that's needed; if the interface is fixed, it becomes a lot easier to
explain.

Failing that, something like this wording will probably do the job and not
be too confusing:
  Saves changes to the task. (If you have not yet saved the task and given
  it a name, use Save As instead of Save.)

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