Disable "Copy of " prefix at save as...

Question

When I rename a document with Save as... Office programs add a superfluous "Copy of" to the filename. Is there a way to disable this behavior?

Answer 1

Is this a 'Save As' from an mail attachment?

Answer 2

No it is in Word.

Answer 3

I'm unable to replicate the issue in any Office component - an existing doc open, then 'Save As' by default it shows the original doc name, which is highlighted, ready to change

Answer 4

hi there,

from my experience, it only happens when you open an attachment (like Word, Excel) from an email and then, after looking at it, decide to save it somewhere locally.

This prefix is a really annoying thing because if you forget to really look at the name while saving (because you just expect it to be the same as it is shown in the mail), it will just change. If you then modify the document and attach again to another mail, and the next person does the same, you get a real stupid sequence of "copy of copy of" before the actual document name.

This also messes up the sorting feature in the file location. It is a waste of my time to either look at the document name and remove the unneeded prefix manually or later figuring out that the name is somehow useless and then delete that prefix in the file location.

Therefore, I would also highly appreciate if somebody could show me the setting where this feature (which might be useful for some people but obviously not to everybody) can be deactivated.

thanks!

Answer 5

hi there,

from my experience, it only happens when you open an attachment (like Word, Excel) from an email and then, after looking at it, decide to save it somewhere locally.

This prefix is a really annoying thing because if you forget to really look at the name while saving (because you just expect it to be the same as it is shown in the mail), it will just change. If you then modify the document and attach again to another mail, and the next person does the same, you get a real stupid sequence of "copy of copy of" before the actual document name.

This also messes up the sorting feature in the file location. It is a waste of my time to either look at the document name and remove the unneeded prefix manually or later figuring out that the name is somehow useless and then delete that prefix in the file location.

Therefore, I would also highly appreciate if somebody could show me the setting where this feature (which might be useful for some people but obviously not to everybody) can be deactivated.

thanks!

In my experience it has nothing to do with outlook or emails - it happens in Excel. Whenever you click Save As, Excel adds a prefix to the file name "Copy of". Even if you click More Options, it still adds the stupid Copy of prefix. So you constantly have to go in and manually delete the prefix so you can call the file what you want. 

Microsoft - please make it possible to disable this "helpful feature"!