Numbers keeps creating duplicate documents

After I open an existing Numbers document and make a few changes to it, I press Command+S but instead of just saving the existing document Numbers tells me to save it as a new document with exact same name (confusing! which one did I just update?). How do I get around this? Thanks!

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 16, 2020 8:01 PM

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SGIII

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Feb 17, 2020 3:41 AM in response to Svetlana Harman

Numbers auto-saves. Is there a particular reason you are pressing command-s?

Note that you can "save as" under another name by holding down the option key when you go to the File menu.

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