How can I save to Time Capsule?

I am a new Mac user, just got my first MacBook and TC. I want to start saving files to the time capsule, but it's not give me a path to do so. When I choose a file I want to save, then File >>> Save As >>> Time Capsule, the Save botton on the bottom right never is available to be chosen.
Do it need to be formatted? Please assist, thank you.

Load the airport utility for windows. Sadly the most recent one is old.
http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1547
Although it is for windows 7 it does work on 8 and 8.1 .. tell us if you have problems loading it. Some people find it won't work without using safe mode.
The utility will not help a lot to setup the latest model TC.. it is fine for Gen4 and earlier. But it does load bonjour for windows and a disk access agent.
The TC should run simple names.. Short.. keep them below 10 characters if you can. No spaces and pure alphanumeric.
That includes the base station name and wireless name.
Once all of that is correct, open windows explorer and type in the address bar.
\\TCname or \\TCipaddress where you replace TCname with the new short name or TCipaddress with obviously its actual IP.
You will then get a request for username and password. Username is whatever.. admin will do. Password type in your disk access password.. public by default.
TC is not designed to allow partitions so you cannot partition the TC disk. Create a folder and simply copy and paste your files to the folder.
NOTE:: The TC cannot back itself up. So make sure you do not move files to the TC without having another copy.
NOTE:: The TC does not happily mix TM backups and data.
See http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html For info about TM and the TC.
This area in particular.
Q3 http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
On mixing data and backups.

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