Excel - Remembering folder

[Oscar A. Moreno]

I am having this behavior from MS Excel 2004 for Mac (MacOSX 10.3.9 in a
G5). When I edit an EXISTING file and I save it, Excel always opens the
Default folder rather than the folder where the file is. Is there a setting
that I'm missing that changes this behavior?
TIA

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Oscar-

From the description I'm not sure what is causing the issue to occur, but it
suggests that you may simply be using Save As each time you save rather than
just the Save command. If so, the program thinks you want to save a new copy
of the file with a different name & is giving you the chance to select a
different location & name the new file. By using Save, no dialog box should
even appear.

Are you finding this to _not_ be the case. If so, post back with more
specific detail if you can.

Regards |:>)

 

[Oscar A. Moreno]

Hi |:>)

If I just use Save, the MS Excel 2004 for Mac saves de file in the Default
Folder (the one set in the Preferences Panel) and not in the Folder where
the original file came from. Thus, I have to "navigate" all the path to
where the original file location. I use MS Excel XP in PeeCee and there the
behavior is as I expected which is to have Excel "remember" the folder where
the file originally came from.

Regards and TIA

 

[CyberTaz]

Are you saying that if you launch Excel, navigate to a folder & open an
excel file that the program attempts to create a new file in the default
folder location when you simply Save the changes you make?

Regards |:>)

 

[Oscar A. Moreno]

YES, indeed.

Are you saying that if you launch Excel, navigate to a folder & open an
excel file that the program attempts to create a new file in the default
folder location when you simply Save the changes you make?

Regards |:>)

 

[CyberTaz]

Does this happen regardless of whether you click the Save button, choose
File>Save, or Cmd+S?

Is your file format (when you save a file) set for 'Excel Workbook'?

Are your files saved as Read Only? You are working from your hard drive &
_not_ a CD or other removable media, right?

Regards |:>)

 

[Oscar A. Moreno]

Answers below,

Regards, Oscar

 

[CyberTaz]

Have not experienced this behavior before, but here are some fairly standard
troubleshooting ideas:

1- Use Disk Utility to run Repair Disk Permissions on your hard drive, log
out/in & see if that changes anything.

2- Go to Tools>Customize>Customize Keyboard, click on Save in the list of
commands as well Save As to see what keystrokes are assigned to them. They
should read as;

Save = Shift+F12, Cmd+S, Control+S
Save As = F12, Cmd+Shift+S

3- Go to Tools>Customize>Customize Toolbars/Menus, on the Toolbars page
click the _name_ Worksheet Menu Bar & click Reset, do the same for the
Standard Toolbar.

If none of this helps, you may have to delete the Excel preferences file.

HTH |:>)