How do I set a default Open location?

[Gary Goldberg]

When I choose Open the default path points to somewhere down in my User
folder. How do I get it to point to the Desktop, where I keep the files
I'm working on?

I use Word 2004 with OS 10.4.8

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi Gary,

Try Word | Preferences | File Locations, and change the location for
Documents.

However, 80% of the time I find that mine goes to the last active
location, which is normally useful. But that setting should kick in the
rest of the time. Also note that hitting cmd-D while a File | Open/Save
dialog is open will jump the active location to the desktop.

hope that helps.

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Gary:

I don't suppose we could persuade you to put your documents into your
Userocuments folder, could we?

It makes your daily backup so much simpler: you only have to back up one
folder

You ARE running a backup, of course

Cheers

When I choose Open the default path points to somewhere down in my User
folder. How do I get it to point to the Desktop, where I keep the files
I'm working on?

I use Word 2004 with OS 10.4.8

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[Gary Goldberg]

I find that backups are automatically placed in my Documents Folder
under Microsoft User Data, which I have to clean out periodically after
I've finished working on a document and have copied it to off-site
storage.

 

[Gary Goldberg]

Ah, thanks! I was interpreting "Documents" as a file type, not
a Folder.

Even though I Save As all new Word documents to the Desktop I will often
find later in the day that if I want to open a previously-saved
document, Word will point to the Users/My Name/ path.