Work Menu

[Scott]

re: Word 2001

I have two documents that I'm working on; one's the main document, the
other a supporting document containing summary information of the first
one.
Each is in the same folder, buried several levels down on my hard drive.
Since I work on them so frequently, I added both to the Work menu. The
supporting document, call it Document Outline, is named just that in the
Work menu. The main document, however, was added with the entire
pathname. IOW, the Work menu looks like this:

Document Outline
hard drive:folder 1:folder 2:folder 3ocument

I'd prefer that this second document also appear like the first one
(i.e., without the pathname)--somehow, it keeps throwing me a little
when I pull down the menu. I've deleted and re-added it twice, but it
keeps appearing the same way. Each document appears in the recent item
listing (in the File menu) that way-i.e., one with the path, one without.

Any way to explain/fix this behavior?

 

[Scott]

The work menu displays the full path to alert you that it is in a different
directory location. If you had added them in the opposite order then the
other file would show the full path. There's no option to "always show the
full path." You'll see the same behavior in the recently used items in the
FIle menu.

If you would like to suggest to Microsoft to add an option to always display
full path names, please let them know your thoughts. There's a built-in
feature that lets you submit suggestions to Microsoft. Look for the feedback
option on Word's Help menu. Every feature suggestion submitted using that
method is tracked at Microsoft.

So now you will be using two Mac-only features. The Work menu and the
Feedback option. Neither one of those is in Windows versions of office.

But
1) as I said, both documents--the only ones in the Work menu--are in the
SAME directory
2) I *DON'T* wnat the full path, just the simple file name.