How can I save a file wherever I want?

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I just upgraded to Office for MAC OS X, and am so frustrated! I used to be
able to save a file anywhere I wanted on my hard disk, and now it only gives
me options like a "documents" file and the hard disk in general....with no
ability to put it in a particular folder, nor any way I can find to make new
folders. How can I fix this???? I'm ready to scream....who wants to save
every document in the same folder???? Whatever were they thinking????
 
Although I doubt that Mac is *that* different from Windows in this regard,
if you don't get a sensible answer here (Dayo, where are you?), try posting
in news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.mac.office.word

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I just upgraded to Office for MAC OS X, and am so frustrated! I used to be
able to save a file anywhere I wanted on my hard disk, and now it only gives
me options like a "documents" file and the hard disk in general....with no
ability to put it in a particular folder, nor any way I can find to make new
folders. How can I fix this???? I'm ready to scream....who wants to save
every document in the same folder???? Whatever were they thinking????
 
I'm here...

A little confused about your problem, though. You should be able to
navigate folders in the Save dialog, and create folders, etc, they did *not*
remove that capability. But come to think of it, if you just switched to X
in general, I think there is an Expanded save dialog. Somewhere near the
top of the small save dialog there should be an arrow. If you click on it,
all sorts of info re navigating your drive should show up (and it's
beautifully easy, much improved from OS 9). I only use X occasionally, and
I think I've been thrown off by that at times. It's a bit counter-intuitive
because usually the arrow to expand dialogs is near the bottom of a dialog,
and marked "more".

If that doesn't work, you should probably repost to the Mac word ng. You
can do web access easily from this site: (note URL broken by text wrapping)
http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx
?guid=366BA05D-4181-BB41-B201-4C83D5F6024C

Or here's instructions on setting up Entourage:
(note that URL is broken by text wrapping)
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups&page=ne
wsgroupsetup

Here's a link on how to spamproof your address to protect it if using
Entourage:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/help/nospam.html

And FYI, you do know if you bought Office X after January, you can try the
almost-free upgrade to Office 2004, when it comes out (it's supposed to be a
much better product).
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004tg

And do a Get Info on the Microsoft Component Plugin, which is in the
Microsoft Office X:Office folder. If it doesn't say 10.1.5, you need some
updates from mactopia.com.

Hope that helps,
DM
 
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