Custom save locations?

[Justin Mack]

I was wondering if there was a way to do the following in Word 2001: I
open a particular file in the finder, and then when I go to "Save
as..." the dialog automatically defaults to saving the new file in the
same folder that I opened the original file in. Make sense? Can it
be done?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Justin,

Yes, it makes perfect sense and, no, it can't be done ­ at least not from
within Word 2001 (I think there's third-party software that does this).
Please send your feedback about this issue to Microsoft (although if there's
a change, it won't be in Word 2001 since development on it has stopped).

Send feedback to: <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/feedback/suggestion.asp>

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.html>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi Justin:

It makes perfect sense to me, and no it cannot be done.

For reasons that escape me, Microsoft decided to follow the behaviour of
Apple OS 9 by calling this function, instead of calling the other one which
produces the same behaviour they have on the PC.

Both of these are actually Finder functions (Word on the Mac does not handle
its own File dialogs, they are all Finder windows). I have been bitching
about this for a while.

I think there is an add-in that does it, but I can't remember which one.

The closest you can get is to set Word>Preferences>File Locations>Documents
to the top folder of your Documents folder. This will work for the first
save of the day: after that, Word remembers where you last saved and offers
that location for the next Save As.

Hope this helps

This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on 1 Jul 2003 08:58:53
-0700, (e-mail address removed) (Justin Mack):

I was wondering if there was a way to do the following in Word 2001: I
open a particular file in the finder, and then when I go to "Save
as..." the dialog automatically defaults to saving the new file in the
same folder that I opened the original file in. Make sense? Can it
be done?

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Hi John:

Since I just wrote a macro to do this for another customer, I'll post it to
you too:

Sub Macro2()
'
' Macro2 Macro
' Macro Written July 3 2003 by John McGhie
'
Dim myName As String
Dim myPath As String
Dim docName As String

docName = InputBox("Please enter the file name for the document.")

myPath = ActiveDocument.Path
If myPath = "" Then
myPath = Options.DefaultFilePath(wdDocumentsPath)
End If

myName = myPath & Application.PathSeparator & docName

ActiveDocument.SaveAs myName

End Sub

If you are unfamiliar with installing Macros, look here:
What do I do with macros sent to me by other newsgroup readers to help me
out? http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm

Cheers

This responds to microsoft.public.mac.office.word on 1 Jul 2003 08:58:53
-0700, (e-mail address removed) (Justin Mack):

I was wondering if there was a way to do the following in Word 2001: I
open a particular file in the finder, and then when I go to "Save
as..." the dialog automatically defaults to saving the new file in the
same folder that I opened the original file in. Make sense? Can it
be done?

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. GMT + 10 Hrs
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]