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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="gedit-files-basic" group="third"/>
    <desc>Save your file to work on it later.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="3.8" date="2013-02-24" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-02-13" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.22" date="2014-02-13" status="review"/>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Jim Campbell</name>
      <email>jcampbell@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Sindhu S</name>
      <email>sindhus@live.in</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Shobha Tyagi</name>
      <email its:translate="no">tyagishobha@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

  
    <mal:credit xmlns:mal="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="translator copyright">
      <mal:name>Zander Brown</mal:name>
      <mal:email>zbrown@gnome.org</mal:email>
      <mal:years>2020</mal:years>
    </mal:credit>
  </info>

  <title>Save a file</title>

  <p>To save a file in <app>gedit</app>, click on the <gui style="button">Save</gui> button on the right side of the header bar or just press <keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>S</key></keyseq>.</p>
  <p>If you are saving a new file, a dialogue will appear, and you can select a name for the file, as well as the directory where you would like the file to be saved.</p>

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