Office 2004 Save As destination

[srehrlich]

I have a user with Office 2004 who, when trying to save a document
opened from
another source (i.e. network drive, email attachment, etc) and selects
Save As,
the destination ends up being where the document was opened from (i.e.
network
drive).

She wants the default location for ALL documents opened from within any
of the
apps in the Office suite, when Save As is selected, to default to
Macintosh HD
(the root of her hard drive). I have visited Preferences/File
Location for
PowerPoint and Word, selected Macintosh HD as the location, but Save As
only
seems to save their by default for newly created documents.

What am I missing? She said it used to work. I applied the latest
Microsoft
patch, hoping that would do something good, but it doesn't seem to have
affected anything.

Thanks for any insight.

Scott

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

I have a user with Office 2004 who, when trying to save a document
opened from
another source (i.e. network drive, email attachment, etc) and selects
Save As,
the destination ends up being where the document was opened from (i.e.
network
drive).

She wants the default location for ALL documents opened from within any
of the
apps in the Office suite, when Save As is selected, to default to
Macintosh HD
(the root of her hard drive). I have visited Preferences/File
Location for
PowerPoint and Word, selected Macintosh HD as the location, but Save As
only
seems to save their by default for newly created documents.

What am I missing? She said it used to work. I applied the latest
Microsoft
patch, hoping that would do something good, but it doesn't seem to have
affected anything.

Thanks for any insight.

Scott

As far as I remember, throughout the mac system, Save as always defaults to
the last directory used by the application. So, if something got opened from
a server, that will be the default save as location for that app.