Once I press OK to dismiss the message another message pops up and says the Document 13 cannot be saved as New Name.

Word is telling you that it sees corruptiondamage where you want to save the document.

What that error likely means is that something in MS Word (and possibly the rest of MS Office) on your system is damaged.

The part is most likely in the part of Word that writes to disk.

In that case boot into Recovery Mode, launch Disk Utility and repairverify the disk.

You can re-install Office and it will go away for a short while, then come back.

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Ive seen people buy a new Mac, and the problem will follow from old Mac to new.

It is clearly a software problem, and it is somewhere in Word.

Ive spent hours reinstalling over and over, deleting every last trace if anything microsoft related.

I dont know if its random, or a conflict with some other software.

But dont want to live with Word like this going forward - what happened to the usual Save and Save As drop-downs.

That fixed it for me when trying to save to desktop (permissions must have somehow changed).

If you dont have the symptom above, deleting this answer and posting it on the correct question for that problem would be best.

You could even link that other question here so people can find the two situations if they arent sure which they face.

It worked great on mine.no more permissions issues with Microsoft Word.

Doing this leaves your system open to issues with accidental deletion of the wrong files and general malware problems.

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