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Joe McGuire
This is a question from my wife. Is there a setting for some sort of
"autocomplete" when looking for a Word file?
Background: When I open the "Open" window for any folder (in Word 2003,
2002, 2000) I can start typing the first few letters of a file's name in the
"File Name" slot and Word completes it with the file name of the first file
what matches the typed letters. That's also what she did, too, that is,
until her office computer/network were upgraded, she says, to Windows XP.
Now she says that this Word feature no longer works. Instead she has to
scroll though the entire folder to find what she wants. It is a huge
folder, containing all the letters she has written about her medical
patients for the past several years. This means scrolling through a few
thousand files! She had the foresight to apply a naming scheme, featuring
the patient's last name and maybe first, too, and then the date. She always
knows the name she wants--that would be the patient she has in front of
her-- but hardly the date. But unless she types the full name of the file,
which she would not be able to remember, she has to waste a lot of time
scrolling through the folder. Many of her patients have long-term or
chronic conditions for which she treats them, so prior clinical information
is very important. Whenever she sees a patient after an initial
consultation she has to refer to her past letters about him or her. (Note:
She works at one of the premiere U.S. teaching hospitals which shall remain
unnamed; her folder of prior patient letters, usually to referring doctors
reciting all the patient's clinical and laboratory data and findings at the
time of the last visit/examination, is often the only "file" available to
her; not exactly high tech, of course)
"autocomplete" when looking for a Word file?
Background: When I open the "Open" window for any folder (in Word 2003,
2002, 2000) I can start typing the first few letters of a file's name in the
"File Name" slot and Word completes it with the file name of the first file
what matches the typed letters. That's also what she did, too, that is,
until her office computer/network were upgraded, she says, to Windows XP.
Now she says that this Word feature no longer works. Instead she has to
scroll though the entire folder to find what she wants. It is a huge
folder, containing all the letters she has written about her medical
patients for the past several years. This means scrolling through a few
thousand files! She had the foresight to apply a naming scheme, featuring
the patient's last name and maybe first, too, and then the date. She always
knows the name she wants--that would be the patient she has in front of
her-- but hardly the date. But unless she types the full name of the file,
which she would not be able to remember, she has to waste a lot of time
scrolling through the folder. Many of her patients have long-term or
chronic conditions for which she treats them, so prior clinical information
is very important. Whenever she sees a patient after an initial
consultation she has to refer to her past letters about him or her. (Note:
She works at one of the premiere U.S. teaching hospitals which shall remain
unnamed; her folder of prior patient letters, usually to referring doctors
reciting all the patient's clinical and laboratory data and findings at the
time of the last visit/examination, is often the only "file" available to
her; not exactly high tech, of course)