Shortcuts Save as in Word, Excel, Powerpoint

This guide provides a practical overview of Shortcuts Save as in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, including its main features, benefits, limitations, and important considerations.

What is Save As?

If Save is simply saving the operations you just edited on the file itself, Save As is different. Save As also saves the actions you edit but on a new file. In other words, Save As will create a new file identical to the current file and save the editing operation on it without making any changes to the current file. Save As lets you change the file name so that it is not confused with the original file, and also allows to change the file format.

Shortcut Save As

Basically the interface and usage of the function keys of Word, Excel and Powerpoint are the same, so is the Save As function. After editing, you only need to press the F12 key, this is a general shortcut for Word, Powerpoint and Excel.

Select the file storage directory in the left column of the window, rename the file in the File name section, then click the Save button.

Save As manually on word, excel, powerpoint

Step 1: Click the File button in the upper left corner of the window.

Step 2: Click Save As -> This PC then select the folder to save. Here I choose to save in the Download folder.

Step 3: Go to the dialog box exactly the way the keyboard shortcut appears.

So you know how to use the Save As function in Word, Excel, Powerpoint to create a new file to be edited without affecting the original file. Good luck!