Why no browse buttons in Office options?

[Andacar]

I like the new office a lot, but there was one small disappointment. For
years, Word has been the only piece of software in the office suite that has
a browse button in the section of setup where you set a default file
location. With all the others, you have to go to My Computer and cut and
paste, or else type it in manually. Why is that? It's kind of annoying.

Andacar


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[LVTravel]

I like the new office a lot, but there was one small disappointment. For
years, Word has been the only piece of software in the office suite that
has
a browse button in the section of setup where you set a default file
location. With all the others, you have to go to My Computer and cut and
paste, or else type it in manually. Why is that? It's kind of annoying.

Andacar


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I agree with your statement! But since I am not part of MS.... I can't
change anything.

Word was developed separately from all other programs of Office and the
browse feature you speak of is apparently a hold-over from the original days
of Word. Unfortunately the developers of the Office program parts haven't
standardized, even in Office '07 programs, the file management setup.
Hopefully in the next version of Office this will be changed.

 

[steven]

I agree with your statement!  But since I am not part of MS.... I can't
change anything.

Word was developed separately from all other programs of Office and the
browse feature you speak of is apparently a hold-over from the original days
of Word.  Unfortunately the developers of the Office program parts haven't
standardized, even in Office '07 programs, the file management setup.
Hopefully in the next version of Office this will be changed.

I'm not sure I understand the problem. But if you want Word to open a
particular folder just add it to the places bar in the open dialogue.
Pretty basic. Also, you could download filebox eXtender, which is
free. It won't just work in Word. You can set up favourite folders and
it does tons of other things, works in File Explorer as well.
http://www.hyperionics.com/ . I'm sure there's a way

 

[LVTravel]

I'm not sure I understand the problem. But if you want Word to open a
particular folder just add it to the places bar in the open dialogue.
Pretty basic. Also, you could download filebox eXtender, which is
free. It won't just work in Word. You can set up favourite folders and
it does tons of other things, works in File Explorer as well.
http://www.hyperionics.com/ . I'm sure there's a way

Steven, I am not the one with the problem but was only attempting to explain
to the OP why Word and other Office programs acted the way they did.

What the OP was saying is that when you attempt to set the default file
location for documents, graphics, template locations, etc. (in Word '03 or
earlier) you would click on Tools, Options, File Locations, Documents (or
the other items) and then Modify and a window opens where you can drill down
to the default file location from a window and don't have to type the full
path for the default. Other Office programs won't do this and you have to
type the full new default file location.

 

[Andacar]

Why should I have to add some chancy third party piece of software to do what
the program should do by itself? In every program I use that has remote data
file locations, there is a browse button that lets you tell the program where
to look for images, documents, models, etc. Maya has it. All the Adobe suite
has it. Why does Word have it but nothing else in Office does? To this day
you still have to manually cut and paste or type a default file path. That
strikes me as the sort of thing you'd see in a program written in the 80s. It
may be OK with the guys used to LINUX or something similar, but not me.

Andacar

 

[Andacar]

I have noticed, after having used a number of software packages for many
years, that developers tend to get excited about churning out new features,
and they often neglect to correct basic problems. This isn't an "Office
Bloatware" rant or anything like that. As previously stated I like the new
Office quite a lot and use it all the time. But this inconsistency is a
fairly basic thing, and I'm genuinely surprised that nobody has noticed it
before.

I can make a parallel illustration with my favorite 3D animation program,
Maya, which I use and teach professionally. Every eight months it comes out
with new, exciting advanced features, which I receive with excitement. But
there are a few basic things about the interface that have been widely
commented deficiencies that haven't been addressed for years. It's way too
hard to create an array of cloned objects in Maya, for example, a basic
requirement.