How do I add 'Save As' to the drop-down menu in the 2025 version of Pages?

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How do I add 'Save As' to the drop-down menu in the 2025 version of Pages?

In the past I have done the work around to add save as in place of duplicate. But it appears that in the latest version of Pages Apple has forced out save as again. Why, I have no idea. I have tried online to find the work around (system settings, keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, app shortcuts, all applications, etc) but duplicate still shows up. All of the info online is from 2017 or earlier. How do I get save as back in the drop down menu? Again, I know you can use the option key, but I want save as in the menu.

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MacBook Air, macOS 15.3

Posted on Mar 20, 2025 7:11 PM

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Peggy

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Mar 21, 2025 8:04 AM in response to hrngffcr

If you use Save As… as often as I do, you may want to use this solution originally by TUAW to permanently change the keyboard combination. The article was written way back when Mountain Lion, OS X 10.8, came out but it still applies to all versions of OS X/macOS since. I have always created a shortcut for Duplicate to use ⌘⌥⇧V so that the same command does not apply to two different actions.

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VikingOSX

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Mar 21, 2025 8:18 AM in response to hrngffcr

There is no guarantee going forward with newer versions of macOS and Pages that old keyboard shortcut workarounds will continue to work. As always, I press the option key when I seek to transform Duplicate to Save As… in the Pages File menu.

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hrngffcr Author

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Mar 21, 2025 2:13 PM in response to hrngffcr

Thank you for your responses. I figured out how to do it. In app shortcuts, I changed duplicate to option+command+shift+S. That removed duplicate from the command+shift+S shortcut. When I went to Pages, the save as was there, with no shortcut showing, and duplicate showing a shortcut of option+command+shift+S. Kind of backwards from the old suggestions, but, hey, it worked!

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