[Colorado-Talk] A Reported Problem with File Explorer in Windows 11

[Curtis Chong]

Greetings and salutations:

 

On a number of mailing lists which I frequent, several people have reported
encountering a problem with File Explorer as implemented in Windows 11. This
problem has been acknowledged by Microsoft to be a problem worth reporting
to its engineering team. Here is a description of the problem and my
suggested method for working around it.

 


Problem Description


 

When attempting to save a document (or an email message in Outlook) using
the "Save As" option, the "Save As" dialog does appear as expected. However,
if a person navigates to and tries to activate the "Save" button, a Tools
context menu unexpectedly appears instead of performing the save action.

 

This problem appears regardless of the screen reader being used.

 


A Possible Work-Around


 

I have come up with two ways to avoid this problem while still saving the
message or file you want to save.

 

1.	Instead of tabbing to and activating the Save button, you can simply
press Enter after typing in the file name since "Save" is the default button
that will be activated when you do this.
2.	If you have already tabbed to the "Save" button, activated it, and
by so doing, brought up the unexpected Tools context menu, you can press
Escape to close this menu, Tab to focus on the next control, Shift Tab back
to the "Save" button, and press Enter to activate this button.

 


Conclusion


 

I have no idea as to when Microsoft plans to implement any kind of a fix for
this issue. I give this to you in the hope that you will benefit from the
procedure I have provided here.

 

Kind wishes,

 

Curtis Chong

 

 

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