Word 2016 Document Names

Question

Whenever I have created a Word document, the title of the document - when I go to save it - has Always been the Top Line of the Document.  (It will stop the name, however, if there is any punctuation or symbols and only include the characters up to that point.)  Now my documents are NOT automatically naming. Does anyone know why this would have stopped, and how to get It back?  Thanks very much.

Answer 1

But the Save As screen (in the Backstage) has changed in recent versions of Word.

An ordinary Save (for example invoked by Ctrl+S) will "re-direct" to the classic Save As dialog box, which will suggest the first sentence as the file name (for an untitled document).

Answer 2

Over the last few days this has been reported by others. Are you on monthly updates in the insiders program? Others reporting this have been on that schedule.

If so, try backing off an update if you can. Also, report using the feedback mechanism.

Answer 3

If you use File>Save, instead of File>Save As, the filename field will be populated with the first line of text from your document.

Answer 4

It is not supposed to work that way.

Definitely try safe mode as describe earlier.

You should also report this as a bug to MS using the Feedback Hub

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Answer 5

Hi Sarah,

As far as I know, it has not been stopped. Is this a problem with one document or all documents or something in between?

Does it happen if you open Word in Safe mode?

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-O...

Safe mode is not a way to regularly use Word, but it is a valuable diagnostic step. If your problem goes away when you use Safe mode, we can walk you through other steps that may help eliminate the problem. Please write back.

If it works in Safe mode, you may want to look at the following while waiting for more information from me or here on the forum.

http://www.addbalance.com/word/addins.htm

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I hope this information helps. Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help.

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