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Fred Parkinson
I had to reformat my comuter. I run Office 2000 under
Windows 98 SE. I now have my hard drive partitioned into
C and D drives. I have all my programs in C:\ and want to
have all my data in D:\. I want to change both the place
Office applications look for files to open, as well as
where it first looks to save files to. I want to have the
root directory of D:\ to be the starting point and then
all I would have to do is choose the folder I want to
open from or save to. After researching this a little
bit, I think the best I can do is default to a folder that
resides in the root directory of D:\. I would then have
my other folders nested within this folder.
I intially wanted to do this for excel, but when I checked
out help I found I could simply change it for all office
applications, which would be my preference.
The help said to merely rename the My Documents folder and
then move it to where you want it to be. I renamed it
to "Data Files" and then moved it to the D:\ drive. I did
this and it didn't work. However, I discover that in
Windows Explorer there are two My Documents folders, one
under the C:\ drive and one under Desktop. I did the
above for the one under C:\. Should I have done this for
the My Documents folder on the desktop? Why are there two
folders with the same name that have the exact same thing
in them? Are they linked in some way.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Windows 98 SE. I now have my hard drive partitioned into
C and D drives. I have all my programs in C:\ and want to
have all my data in D:\. I want to change both the place
Office applications look for files to open, as well as
where it first looks to save files to. I want to have the
root directory of D:\ to be the starting point and then
all I would have to do is choose the folder I want to
open from or save to. After researching this a little
bit, I think the best I can do is default to a folder that
resides in the root directory of D:\. I would then have
my other folders nested within this folder.
I intially wanted to do this for excel, but when I checked
out help I found I could simply change it for all office
applications, which would be my preference.
The help said to merely rename the My Documents folder and
then move it to where you want it to be. I renamed it
to "Data Files" and then moved it to the D:\ drive. I did
this and it didn't work. However, I discover that in
Windows Explorer there are two My Documents folders, one
under the C:\ drive and one under Desktop. I did the
above for the one under C:\. Should I have done this for
the My Documents folder on the desktop? Why are there two
folders with the same name that have the exact same thing
in them? Are they linked in some way.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.