Small but useful post. Since Office 2012, CTRL O or CTRL S do not open Open / Save dialogs. You must click CTRL O – Computer – Browse to get that dialog. This is a GOOD THING. Because Microsoft wants to change our bad habit of storing everything locally and help us move to internet storage (OneDrive, SharePoint, DropBox, etc.).
In some cases, you want to do some quick and repeated operations on local PC. Want the simple Open / Save dialog just with CTRL O and CTRL S. Wish granted!
File – Options – Save – Don’t show the Backstage when opening or saving files.
Use this option temporarily. When the job is done, go back to the Backstage view. I will write more articles about Why Backstage is important very soon.
