Office 2021 for Macs For Dummies. Bob LeVitus

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СКАЧАТЬ addition to letting you name and save a document that has never been saved, Save As has another reason to exist: It lets you resave a file that has already been saved by giving it a different name.

      Why would you want to do that? Here’s a good (albeit somewhat rude) example:

      Suppose that you have two cousins: Kate and Nancy. You write Kate a long, chatty letter and save this document with the name Letter to Kate. At some point afterward, you decide to send almost the same letter to Nancy, but with a few changes. So you change the part about your date last night (Nancy isn’t as liberated as Kate) and replace all references to Kate’s husband, Kevin, with the name of Nancy’s husband, Norman. (Aren’t computers grand?)

      So you make all these changes to Letter to Kate, but you haven’t saved this document yet. And, although the document on your screen is a letter to Nancy, its filename is still Letter to Kate. Think of what would happen if you were to save the letter now without using the Save As feature: Letter to Kate reflects the changes you just made. (The material in the letter meant for Kate is blown away, replaced by the material you write to Nancy.) Thus, the filename Letter to Kate is inaccurate. Even worse, you would no longer have a copy of the letter you sent to Kate!

      The solution? Just use Save As to rename this file Letter to Nancy by choosing File ⇒ Save As. A Save As dialog appears, in which you can type a different filename in the Save As field. You can also navigate to another folder, if you like, and save the newly named version of the file there.

      Now you have two distinct files: Letter to Kate and Letter to Nancy. Both contain the material they should, but both started life from the same file. That’s what Save As is for.

      An even better idea is to choose Save As just before you begin modifying the document and give it the new name. That way, when you’re done with your changes, you don’t have to remember to choose Save As — you can just perform your habitual Save. It also protects you from accidentally saving part of the letter to Nancy without changing its name first (which you’re likely to do if you’re following our advice about saving often). So, when you decide you’re going to reuse a document, choose Save As before you begin working on it, just to be safe.

      A-U-T-O-matic Recovery

      AutoRecover is a feature (enabled by default) in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that attempts to preserve your document contents in the event of a catastrophic event (like a computer crash or power outage). You can disable this feature (don’t do it, we implore you) or re-enable it by opening Preferences in the app, clicking the Save button in the Preferences dialog, and deselecting or selecting the Save AutoRecover Info box (it’s labeled Enable AutoRecover in Excel).

      

When the Save AutoRecover Info setting is enabled, you usually don’t lose any work after a crash. AutoRecover generally recovers all your work, right up to the moment of the crash, even if you haven’t saved the document or haven’t saved it in a while.

      

Despite the preceding tip, be aware that AutoRecover doesn’t always work. So, even if you enable it, resave your documents regularly. Train your fingers to issue the ⌘ +S keyboard shortcut every few minutes, whether you think you need to or not.

Saving and Using Documents in the Cloud

      In addition to saving files to your local hard disk(s), as we describe in the section “Creating and Saving Documents,” earlier in this chapter, you can also save documents to a OneDrive or SharePoint location in the cloud. The service is especially useful for documents you'll be collaborating on with others, but you can also use it for backup copies of the file, just in case.

      OneDrive and SharePoint are similar cloud-based file storage systems. The difference between them is that OneDrive is publicly available from Microsoft at no cost and SharePoint is privately maintained. If you work for an enterprise, your IT department may provide a SharePoint server. For everyone else, there’s OneDrive.

      

The more important the file, the more places you should back it up.

      

If you don't have a OneDrive (or SharePoint) service, this section may not make sense.

      Saving a file on a OneDrive or SharePoint location

      Saving a file using the OneDrive (or SharePoint) service is a little different than saving a file locally. To save a file in the cloud, choose File ⇒ Save or File ⇒ Save As.

A Save As dialog drops from the title bar. Click the Online Locations button in the dialog box, just to the left of the File Format menu (refer to Figure 3-9). The Save As field is now called Name; type a name for the document in that field. Select a OneDrive or SharePoint location on the left side of the dialog (as we did in Figure 3-10), choose a folder for saving the document, and then click the Save button.

      FIGURE 3-10: Saving a Word document to OneDrive.

      

If you see an On My Mac button next to the File Format menu, you’re already saving to an online location. If you want to save it locally (on your computer) instead, click the On My Mac button.

You may have noticed the AutoSave button in the upper-left corner of your documents. This feature saves documents you’ve stored in OneDrive or SharePoint automatically, preventing you from losing your precious content in the event something goes wrong. This button toggles to On automatically when you save a file to OneDrive or SharePoint.

      

By the way, OneDrive and SharePoint require the XML file formats .docx, .pptx, or .xlsx to use the AutoSave feature.

      Sharing a file you’ve saved using OneDrive or SharePoint

      To share a file you’ve saved using OneDrive or SharePoint, click the Share button in the upper right of any document window and choose either:

       Invite People: Creates an email that you send to whomever you want to share the file with. You can also give them editing privileges.

       Copy Link: Creates a link either allowing or not allowing editing privileges that you can then share with others.

       Send a Copy: Creates a copy of the file in Word, PDF, or HTML format that you can then email to a recipient.

      You can find out more about collaboration in later chapters, so we leave it at that for now.

      Opening a file you’ve saved on your OneDrive or SharePoint location

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