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diff --git a/‎protos/protos.json
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diff --git a/‎src/entity.ts
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diff --git a/‎src/index.ts
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diff --git a/‎src/interfaces/save.ts
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diff --git a/‎src/request.ts
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@@ -778,7 +778,6 @@ export namespace entity {
    */
   export function entityToEntityProto(entityObject: EntityObject): EntityProto {
     const properties = entityObject.data;
-    const excludeFromIndexes = entityObject.excludeFromIndexes;
 
     const entityProto: EntityProto = {
       key: null,
@@ -793,6 +792,15 @@ export namespace entity {
       ),
     };
 
+    addExcludeFromIndexes(entityObject.excludeFromIndexes, entityProto);
+
+    return entityProto;
+  }
+
+  export function addExcludeFromIndexes(
+    excludeFromIndexes: string[] | undefined,
+    entityProto: EntityProto
+  ): EntityProto {
     if (excludeFromIndexes && excludeFromIndexes.length > 0) {
       excludeFromIndexes.forEach((excludePath: string) => {
         excludePathFromEntity(entityProto, excludePath);
@@ -1463,7 +1471,7 @@ export interface ResponseResult {
 
 export interface EntityObject {
   data: {[k: string]: Entity};
-  excludeFromIndexes: string[];
+  excludeFromIndexes?: string[];
 }
 
 export interface Json {
 
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ import {Transaction} from './transaction';
 import {promisifyAll} from '@google-cloud/promisify';
 import {google} from '../protos/protos';
 import {AggregateQuery} from './aggregate';
+import {SaveEntity} from './interfaces/save';
 
 const {grpc} = new GrpcClient();
+const addExcludeFromIndexes = entity.addExcludeFromIndexes;
 
 export type PathType = string | number | entity.Int;
 export interface BooleanObject {
@@ -1076,7 +1078,7 @@ class Datastore extends DatastoreRequest {
     gaxOptionsOrCallback?: CallOptions | SaveCallback,
     cb?: SaveCallback
   ): void | Promise<SaveResponse> {
-    entities = arrify(entities);
+    entities = arrify(entities) as SaveEntity[];
     const gaxOptions =
       typeof gaxOptionsOrCallback === 'object' ? gaxOptionsOrCallback : {};
     const callback =
@@ -1109,22 +1111,30 @@ class Datastore extends DatastoreRequest {
           }
         }
 
-        if (entityObject.excludeLargeProperties) {
-          entityObject.excludeFromIndexes = entity.findLargeProperties_(
-            entityObject.data,
-            '',
-            entityObject.excludeFromIndexes
-          );
-        }
-
         if (!entity.isKeyComplete(entityObject.key)) {
           insertIndexes[index] = true;
         }
 
-        // @TODO remove in @google-cloud/[email protected]
-        // This was replaced with a more efficient mechanism in the top-level
-        // `excludeFromIndexes` option.
         if (Array.isArray(entityObject.data)) {
+          // This code populates the excludeFromIndexes list with the right values.
+          if (entityObject.excludeLargeProperties) {
+            entityObject.data.forEach(
+              (data: {
+                name: {
+                  toString(): string;
+                };
+                value: Entity;
+                excludeFromIndexes?: boolean;
+              }) => {
+                entityObject.excludeFromIndexes = entity.findLargeProperties_(
+                  data.value,
+                  data.name.toString(),
+                  entityObject.excludeFromIndexes
+                );
+              }
+            );
+          }
+          // This code builds the right entityProto from the entityObject
           entityProto.properties = entityObject.data.reduce(
             (
               acc: EntityProtoReduceAccumulator,
@@ -1155,7 +1165,18 @@ class Datastore extends DatastoreRequest {
             },
             {}
           );
+          // This code adds excludeFromIndexes in the right places
+          addExcludeFromIndexes(entityObject.excludeFromIndexes, entityProto);
         } else {
+          // This code populates the excludeFromIndexes list with the right values.
+          if (entityObject.excludeLargeProperties) {
+            entityObject.excludeFromIndexes = entity.findLargeProperties_(
+              entityObject.data,
+              '',
+              entityObject.excludeFromIndexes
+            );
+          }
+          // This code builds the right entityProto from the entityObject
           entityProto = entity.entityToEntityProto(entityObject);
         }
 
 
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+// Copyright 2024 Google LLC
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+import {Entity, entity} from '../entity';
+
+/*
+Entity data passed into save in non array form will be of type SaveNonArrayData
+and does not require name and value properties.
+ */
+type SaveNonArrayData = {
+  [k: string]: Entity;
+};
+
+/*
+Entity data passed into save in an array form will be of type SaveArrayData
+so will have name and value defined because the source code of save requires a
+name and a value to be defined or else an error will be thrown.
+ */
+interface SaveArrayData {
+  name: {
+    toString(): string;
+  };
+  value: Entity;
+  excludeFromIndexes?: boolean;
+}
+
+/*
+When saving an entity, data in the data property of the entity is of type
+SaveDataValue. The data can either be in array form in which case it will
+match the SaveArrayData[] data type or it can be in non-array form where
+it will match the SaveNonArrayData data type.
+ */
+export type SaveDataValue = SaveArrayData[] | SaveNonArrayData;
+
+/*
+An Entity passed into save will include a Key object contained either inside
+a `key` property or inside a property indexed by the Key Symbol. If it is
+the former then it will be of type SaveEntityWithoutKeySymbol.
+ */
+interface SaveEntityWithoutKeySymbol {
+  key: entity.Key;
+  data: SaveDataValue;
+  excludeFromIndexes?: string[];
+}
+
+/*
+An Entity passed into save will include a Key object contained either inside
+a `key` property or inside a property indexed by the Key Symbol. If it is
+the latter then it will be of type SaveEntityWithKeySymbol.
+ */
+interface SaveEntityWithKeySymbol {
+  [entity.KEY_SYMBOL]: entity.Key;
+  data: SaveDataValue;
+}
+
+/*
+Entities passed into the first argument of the save function are expected to be
+of type SaveEntity[] after being turned into an array. We could change the
+signature of save later to enforce this, but doing so would be a breaking change
+so we just cast this value to SaveEntity[] for now to enable strong type
+enforcement throughout this function.
+ */
+export type SaveEntity = SaveEntityWithoutKeySymbol | SaveEntityWithKeySymbol;
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ import {RunOptions} from './transaction';
 import * as protos from '../protos/protos';
 import {serializer} from 'google-gax';
 import * as gax from 'google-gax';
+import {SaveDataValue} from './interfaces/save';
 type JSONValue =
   | string
   | number
@@ -1412,8 +1413,10 @@ export interface PrepareEntityObject {
   [key: string]: google.datastore.v1.Key | undefined;
 }
 export interface PrepareEntityObjectResponse {
-  key?: google.datastore.v1.Key;
-  data?: google.datastore.v1.Entity;
+  key?: entity.Key;
+  data?: SaveDataValue;
+  excludeFromIndexes?: string[];
+  excludeLargeProperties?: boolean;
   method?: string;
 }
 export interface RequestCallback {