Office Save to current folder

[tomas gutierrez]

Everytime I open a folder and I want to do a save as to the current folder
that I open the file from. Office (word,Excel) go back the the folder that I last
save to. Does any one know how to set up Office to save to the current
folder where you open the file from?

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

What version are you using? I think this is a known design flaw in Office
2001 and X, and don't recall that there was a solution. One workaround for
2001 is setting up the Favorites and Recent icons (folder and clock) that
are in the Save As dialog, so that you at least have easy access to your
commonly used folders from the Save As dialog. The X dialog should be even
easier to set up for quick access.

Anybody, is this fixed in 2004? Or was there a solution in earlier versions
that I have forgotten?

You can set a default folder through preferences, file locations (at least
for Word) and get the dialog to go to the same place all the time, which is
not very helpful.

DM

 

[Roger Morris]

Word 11 (Test Drive)
File/Open 'aWordDoc' in any folder
then use File/Save As
The default folder name is the one which contained 'aWordDoc'

This is different from Word X - someone listened and it now does what we
want. So, tomas, to use this facility you will have to upgrade. (and so
shall I, there are only 5 more days left on my Test Drive!)

Roger