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CHAPTER 13 APPLICATION BASICS
Figure 13-7. A simple Save As dialog
The simple Save As dialog simple asks what you’d like the name of the file to be and provides
a drop-down menu of common and recent folders into which to save the file. Beneath that
is an area with application-specific save settings. Clicking the disclosure triangle to the right of
the Save As text field will expand the dialog into the expanded view.
Figure 13-8. An expanded Save As file dialog. The area between the file browser and the buttons allows
developers to include their own save options; as such, what’s contained will vary from app to app.
The expanded Save As dialog provides the Finder view just like the Open file dialog but
adds the Save As text field as well as the application save settings.
NOTE Save will save an existing file with changes, overwriting the old file. Save As, on the
other hand, will prompt you for a new file name (and location) so you can save a duplicate or
updated copy of the file while preserving the original. If the file doesn’t exist, Save will work
the same as Save As. In the past, occasionally Save would sometimes tack on new information
to a file in an inefficient manner, creating larger-than-necessary files, and it was recommended
that you use Save As to save a fresh file every once in a while to correct this bloat. However,
this behavior is no longer common (though Word in Office 2004 does have an option to allow
fast saves, which would reintroduce this issue).