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The following are the steps to allow you to save your files when you have modified them in Dreamweaver. Once any file in Dreamweaver has been changed the active tab will show an asterysk, and before uploading you'll need to save your document. This is quickly done by the 'save all' function. However, you'll notice that Dreamweaver does not have a default keyboard shortcut. The below steps guide to on creating a handy 'Save All' keyboard shortcut.

1. Navigate to Edit
2. Click on Keyboard Shortcuts
3. Click on duplicate set button
4. Choose a name for the duplicate set and then click OK
5. With the current set equal to the created Dupliate set navigate in the commands section and expland 'file'
6. Navigate to 'Select all' and then place cursor in 'Press Key' area and then key in the keyboard combination you'd like for the shortcut
7. Once the keyboard is set to your sepecifications click OK button.

This is a very simple method of getting your files uploaded to the server, when you have an active tab in the Dreamweaver Design Environment or if you have a file selected in your file view simply click Cntrl + Shift + U, you'll then see a status bar while the file is being uploaded.

You'll notice if you've coded in any other integrated design environment that Dreamweaver's code hinting is somewhat partial. I am used to seeing the code in the code hint and simply clicking enter and it gets inserted into the development environment, I expect to see both tags completed for me. But that's not what you'll get, you can remedy this to a certain degree where you type out the opening tag and the closing tag automatically gets generated. Below are the steps:

1. Click on Edit
2. Click on Preferences, then dialog box displays
3. In the Dialog box click on 'Code Hints' in the Category column
4. Change the radial button to 'After typing the opening tag's >' then click OK.