I used to use Microsoft office and if I made changes to an existing document, I just saved it and it updated and stayed in the same place with the same name.

Now using numbers on Mac, if I do this it updates but creates a new document so I'm left with 2 separate ones ie if the first document is say records, it then creates a new document records2 with the updated info (hope that makes sense, a bit difficult to explain)

Ive googled it but still can't make sense of it, any advice would be appreciated.

hi Steve,

are you opening an older existing ms excel doc in numbers? or does this happen with newly created numbers files also ?

the only reason I ask this is if its an existing ms file numbers will import the info but can't overwrite or save to an excel file, so it will create a copy named the same but in a numbers format. This should only happen when opening the old file for the first time after that the new numbers file should save without any duplication

soz if this is of no help

its newly created files mate, thanks anyway

hi Steve, is there an issue with where the file is saving to? ( cloud or drive) or does the file have a permissions set?

can you save a file to your desktop and see if it still does it then?

sometimes duplications can be caused by sync issues