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Message: [QUOTE="Clive Huggan, post: 6870592"] Hello Chris, Welcome to Mac! That's the way Apple has built OS X, I'm afraid. It's not a Word characteristic. But you can open the folders that appear in the "Open" dialogue, and if there are Word documents inside them, they are accessible. And you can open aliases of folders too. Do you really want to open non-Word files from the Open dialogue? (Forgive me if I'm not perceiving the problem correctly. Mac users often open documents via the Finder: I haven't used the "Open" menu item for a year or so). By the way, not quite related to your problem but useful nevertheless: a handy tip is to hold down the Command key (the one with the cloverleaf and on older keyboards an apple on it) and click on the title of the document in the title bar: you are then presented with a selectable hierarchy. Cheers, Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia (My time zone is 5-11 hours different from North America and Europe, so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed) ============================================================ * SUGGESTION -- KEEP REVISITING AFTER YOU POST: If you post a question, keep re-visiting the newsgroup for several days after the first response comes in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before the best or complete solution is provided; sometimes you'll be asked for further information. Good tips about getting the best out of posting are at [URL]http://word.mvps.org/Mac/AccessNewsgroups.html[/URL] and [URL]http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm[/URL] (if you use Safari you may see a blank page and have to hit the circular arrow icon -- "Reload the current page" -- two or more times). ============================================================ [/QUOTE]

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