Issue With Pressing Caps Lock During Save

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Issue With Pressing Caps Lock During Save

When I use Pages' saving feature where you press the title of the window I get strange interactions pressing the caps lock key. I have a video to sample one of these reactions. Within the name prompt is where I cannot activate caps lock. However when I am not screen recording this interaction will instead cause caps lock to shutter on and off repeatedly until I press the caps lock key again.

It's strange and I can't begin to understand what's going on but I hope if someone just tries to repeat this behavior I hope they can see what I'm talking about. Thank you 😊

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Mac mini

Posted on Mar 5, 2025 06:16 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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Mar 11, 2025 10:09 AM in response to mikes1025

You should not manipulate Pages document naming or location from the document title bar. This has burned too many users over the years.

The correct way to save a Pages document is from the File menu > Save… for the first save, which enables autosave, or afterward manually with cmd+S. There is no caps key involved in this process.

If for some reason, you want to save the document with a different name, press and hold the option key while selecting File menu > Save As… Again, no caps key is used in this process.

By default, the operating system is installed on a case-insensitive filesystem, so a capitalized or default uncapitalized Pages document is the same file — though only one can exist in a given filesystem location.

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