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How to prevent adding ‘Copy of’ when using Save As

Anonymous
2013-09-30T10:35:31+00:00

When I choose menu option ‘File | Save as’ Access prefixes the name with ‘copy of’ which I seldom want and have to edit out. Is there a setting where I can remove this behaviour? Thank you

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-30T15:04:34+00:00

    It is an inconvenience, because I need to press the home key to go to the start of the name and press the delete key 8 times to delete 'copy of ' , which are all extra keystrokes that should not be necessary

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-10-02T11:40:03+00:00

    I usually want to edit the existing name into a new but similar name. Therefore pressing {home} and the delete key 8 times to delete 'copy of ' are all extra keystrokes that should not be necessary.

    Surely there is a registry key which I can edit to get rid of this superfluous text?

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-10-02T21:34:16+00:00

    To the best of my knowledge, there's no such registry key.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-30T15:46:28+00:00

    When I do File > Save As the entire name is highlighted when the Save As pop up first happens...  Just start typing the new name...

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-09-30T10:58:55+00:00

    There's no way that I'm aware of. However, given that you're going to assign a new name anyhow, I don't really see how it's that much of an inconvenience. :)

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