Work menu

[Carl L Cooper]

Is there a way to keep paths from appearing opposite some of the items on
the Work menu? Likewise in the list of recently-opened files on the File
menu. Why do some items have a path attached while others do not?

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Carl,

I have very occasionally had a filepath appear (Word 2004, OS 10.4.3), but
it hasn't happened lately. I tentatively concluded it appeared when I put
something from another hard drive on the work menu.

However, in February, Daiya Mitchell said she had observed the same thing
but did not have an external drive. Then John McGhie said:

I suspect that the file paths might "go away" if the 'current' current
folder is the same as the path in thee shortcut, and come back when the
current folder changes.

What I have not figured out is when Word 2004 updates the 'current folder'.
It is supposed to update it whenever you open a document. It doesn't do
that, but I am not sure what it does instead...

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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Is there a way to keep paths from appearing opposite some of the items on the
Work menu? Likewise in the list of recently-opened files on the File menu. Why
do some items have a path attached while others do not?

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[Carl L Cooper]

Clive,

Thanks for your help, as always. And I¹ve enjoyed dipping into your
excellent BendWord book.

You¹ve put me on the right track. With more experimenting it does appear
that the folder in which the particular document resides is the key. Also
the first document opened with the launching of Word is significant.
Additionally, the opening of additional documents (and their location) is
important.

There¹s still a realm of mystery, however. There¹s one particular file which
always shows its path unless I launch it first! This is true regardless of
where I place the file!

Carl

 

[Clive Huggan]

Carl,

Thank you for that extra feedback on the problem. Bit by bit, we add to our
knowledge, still mindful of Word¹s wonderful capacity, in some of its 30
million lines of code, to mystify! ;-)

Good to know you find ³Bend Word² helpful. I like your term ³dipping into²,
and will borrow it! A friend of mine was recently telling someone, at the
Help Desk at my local Apple user group, not to worry about Bend Word being
200 pages long; he said: ³It¹s essentially a dictionary, not a novel!² Now
we can add ³Just dip into it!² to help to allay the newcomer¹s fears...

Cheers,
Clive
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