Saving Documents

[MeredithLeMay]

When I pull up a document to edit, then choose "Save As" to save changed
document under a new name, the path does not stay in the same folder.
Instead, it pulls up the last folder I saved a document under.

For example, I worked on an excel spreadsheet and saved it. I then go to a
completely different folder, pull up last week's time sheet, make changes and
click "Save As." I want to save it in the same folder, but it pulls up the
excel folder I used previously instead.

Is there a way to change this setting?

 

[Don Phillipson]

When I pull up a document to edit, then choose "Save As" to save changed
document under a new name, the path does not stay in the same folder.
Instead, it pulls up the last folder I saved a document under.

For example, I worked on an excel spreadsheet and saved it. I then go to a
completely different folder, pull up last week's time sheet, make changes and
click "Save As." I want to save it in the same folder, but it pulls up the
excel folder I used previously instead.

Is there a way to change this setting?

This is an Excel configuration problem (not a Windows
problem.) Excel recalls for you two filepaths to folders:
1 = default preference preset for XLS files
2 = last folder used (if not default.)
Have you set #1 = preferred data storage folder? If this
config. item is unused, the app. may default to #2.

 

[Barry Schwarz]

When I pull up a document to edit, then choose "Save As" to save changed
document under a new name, the path does not stay in the same folder.
Instead, it pulls up the last folder I saved a document under.

For example, I worked on an excel spreadsheet and saved it. I then go to a
completely different folder, pull up last week's time sheet, make changes and
click "Save As." I want to save it in the same folder, but it pulls up the
excel folder I used previously instead.

Is there a way to change this setting?

Maybe by asking in a newsgroup where the Excel experts hang out.

 

[Twayne]

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When I pull up a document to edit, then choose "Save As" to save
changed document under a new name, the path does not stay in the same
folder. Instead, it pulls up the last folder I saved a document under.

For example, I worked on an excel spreadsheet and saved it. I then
go to a completely different folder, pull up last week's time sheet,
make changes and click "Save As." I want to save it in the same
folder, but it pulls up the excel folder I used previously instead.

Is there a way to change this setting?

Not that I've ever come across. The last save folder is "remembered" and
that's what's put up there for you.

Twayne

 

[Twayne]

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Maybe by asking in a newsgroup where the Excel experts hang out.

It's not an excel issue; it's an OS issue.

Twayne


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