Saving files in MSword on my Mac Book

[DenTanner]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

When I go to Save a document the dialogue box does not give me the option of choosing a subfolder within a main folder. For instance, it will let me save in Documents, but will not let me choose the specific folder in Documents where I want to save the file. As a result, I am forced to save everything on Desktop and then drag it to the folder where I want it.

 

[John McGhie]

This is actually nothing to do with Word. The dialog you are seeing is a
Finder window.

In the Finder help, read the topic "Saving documents you create" to
understand how to get this to work.

It's the second-most-unintuitive piece of design I know about on an Apple.
The absolute WORST is the Blue Jellybean in the top right corner of the
Application Window.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

When I go to Save a document the dialogue box does not give me the option of
choosing a subfolder within a main folder. For instance, it will let me save
in Documents, but will not let me choose the specific folder in Documents
where I want to save the file. As a result, I am forced to save everything on
Desktop and then drag it to the folder where I want it.

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McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia. | Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410
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[Clive Huggan]

Hello Den,

To expand your options, click on the little blue triangle that you'll see
alongside "Documents". It's a badly designed oddity in Apple's OS X regime.
;-)

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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