MS Word saving

Has anyone noticed with Snow Leopard that it's very, very clunky about saving documents?? I try to save something in MS Word, and I have to get out of Word, go to my documents folder in finder, then create folders that I want, go back to word and save my document in documents, go back to finder and open the documents folder and move my document to the folder.
Is Mac becoming even more crazy with each OS?? I find the most basic tasks of word processing to be clunky and time consuming. I know Apple hates MS, but why promise the best of both worlds when you can't even save a document?
Please, someone tell me I'm missing something and there is an easy way to save documents, create folders, and save to those folders in MS Word!
Also, I know Apple isn't open to feedback very readily, but is there a way to leave feedback on the site so that other users who are purchasing know how much extra work they'll go to for basic functions?
I love my 3rd Mac, but Apple's downward trend is going to kill them.

conlina wrote:
Has anyone noticed with Snow Leopard that it's very, very clunky about saving documents?? I try to save something in MS Word, and I have to get out of Word, go to my documents folder in finder, then create folders that I want, go back to word and save my document in documents, go back to finder and open the documents folder and move my document to the folder.
It sure sounds to me like your dialogs got reset to Basic mode when you upgraded to Snow Leopard, and you have not yet expanded it. Because if you had expanded your Save As dialog, you would see all of the options. When the dialog is collapsed, you only see Save As, Where (defaulting to Documents), and File Format. As someone already mentioned, try clicking the arrow to the right of Save As to expand the dialog.
If this is the problem, then all your other complaints about "becoming more crazy" and "very very clunky" would no longer apply. Snow Leopard is a quite good OS in fact.
Personally I find the collapsed default annoying, so I used TinkerTool to set "Prefer expanded Save dialogs when using new applications" and the same preference for the Print dialog. Many users get confused about the "lack" of options in their unexpanded Print dialogs too.

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