| Tip 21 | Get Back “Save As” |
With Lion, many OS X apps lost the ages-old Save As option on the File menu. After a file has been initially saved, the preferred way to save a new copy with a different filename is to use the Duplicate option on the File menu, which, as its name suggests, produces a copy of the original that you can then manually save with a new filename. Time-consuming, to say the least!
The good news is that Mountain Lion goes some way to restoring the Save As option. Alas, there are a couple of caveats, as follows:
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The Save As option on the file menu is hidden. To see it, activate the File menu by clicking it, and then hold down Option. It will appear where the Duplicate option usually is—see Figure 7, Restoring the Save As entry ...
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