View preferences in Open/Save dialog boxes

[Philip]

Is there any way to get Office programs to remember the list viewing
preferences in Open/Save dialog boxes (e.g., view by name, view by date, the
width of columns, etc.)?

Every time I want to open a document, the list view is defaulted to "view by
name" and often the column width is too narrow to see the complete name.
When I adjust the column view and click (twice!) on date modified, it's much
easier to find documents and navigate. Only problem, next time I open the
dialog box, I have to repeat this all again.

This annoyance doesn't seem to be limited to Word and Office programs;
Appleworks and Photoshop behave similarly. However, Text Edit, Preview, and
Safari work fine.

An excellent program that works around this on pre-OS X is PowerOn
software's Action Files, but there is no version for OS X. Any one know of a
workaround to this (through scripting or otherwise).

Philip

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Is there any way to get Office programs to remember the list viewing
preferences in Open/Save dialog boxes (e.g., view by name, view by date, the
width of columns, etc.)?

Every time I want to open a document, the list view is defaulted to "view by
name" and often the column width is too narrow to see the complete name.
When I adjust the column view and click (twice!) on date modified, it's much
easier to find documents and navigate. Only problem, next time I open the
dialog box, I have to repeat this all again.

This annoyance doesn't seem to be limited to Word and Office programs;
Appleworks and Photoshop behave similarly. However, Text Edit, Preview, and
Safari work fine.

An excellent program that works around this on pre-OS X is PowerOn
software's Action Files, but there is no version for OS X. Any one know of a
workaround to this (through scripting or otherwise).

I'm seeing only part of what you're seeing - Office v.X for me opens
the Open/SaveAs dialogs in the view they were in last - either
column or list, and the pane widths are also the same (as long as
the document is wide enough to support it in the case of windowshade
saveas dialogs). I don't know of any way to widen the columns in
column view, nor to specify date modified (I only have to click
once) in list view.

Since the dialogs are system dialogs rather than dialogs designed by
MS, I don't know how much flexibility there is in them. Certainly
Text Edit, Preview and Safari, being Cocoa apps, have a different
interface than the Cocoa Office.

Please provide feedback to MS using the Help/Send Feedback on
<application> menu item. I suspect the choices available to the
designers will be much different for any future versions.

 

[Philip]

I'm seeing only part of what you're seeing - Office v.X for me opens
the Open/SaveAs dialogs in the view they were in last - either
column or list, and the pane widths are also the same (as long as
the document is wide enough to support it in the case of windowshade
saveas dialogs). I don't know of any way to widen the columns in
column view, nor to specify date modified (I only have to click
once) in list view.

Since the dialogs are system dialogs rather than dialogs designed by
MS, I don't know how much flexibility there is in them. Certainly
Text Edit, Preview and Safari, being Cocoa apps, have a different
interface than the Cocoa Office.

Please provide feedback to MS using the Help/Send Feedback on
<application> menu item. I suspect the choices available to the
designers will be much different for any future versions.

Thanks.

Sorry, I don't think I was clear enough. I am only talking about the view
preferences in the *list* view (not whether the default is list or column).
Also, the reason I have to click twice on the "date modified" column is
because I want the most recent document first. The first click sorts the
list from the oldest to the latest and the second click does the reverse.

I will send my feedback to MS.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Certainly

BTW, that should have been "Carbon Office"