Saving to specific drives

[vtrud]

In Office 2007 when I want to save a word doc, I want it to open to a
specific drive and folder everytime I click on Save or Save As. I cannot get
it to do this, it keeps opening to My Documents. Then I have to go through
choosing the path each and every time. This happens only when I open a
document that someone has sent to me. If I create a document, it will open
to the last location I was at. I usually just deal with it but I quite often
have a large number of docs sent to me and this gets quite annoying. I have
followed the Help instructions and it still does not do it.

Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.Click
Save.Under Save documents, next to the Default file location box, click
Browse.Browse to the new default working folder, and then click OK.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you open a document directly from an email attachment, then the default
Save location will be a temp folder, and you will have to navigate to
another folder. But you should be able to add your preferred folder to the
Places bar in the Save As dialog; see
http://www.gmayor.com/customize_the_word_places_bar.htm. This gives you
one-click access to frequently used folders. In Vista there's a somewhat
different design that I confess I still don't quite understand, but it's
still possible to add shortcuts to frequently used folders.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[vtrud]

I went to this site you gave and the instructions are for Word 2000/2003. I
have 2007 and I the Places bar is not an option. There are a lot of things I
just cannot find in this 2007. Like the properties where you could tell who
and when a doc was created.

Thanks for trying though. Happy Holidays.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Places Bar is still an option in Word 2007 running under Windows XP; as
I mentioned, the setup is different in Windows Vista, but you can still add
favorite folders to the dialog.

As for the Properties, the easiest solution is to add a button to the QAT to
open the classic Properties dialog. The command you're looking for (under
All Commands) is Advanced Document Properties. There *are* other ways to get
to them, but they require many more clicks.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[p0]

Document properties can be found in Word by clicking the Office
button, then "Prepare" and "Properties". Not that at the top of the
properties "bar" there is a button with an arrow called "Document
properties" where you can access the advanced properties.

Yves

 

[vtrud]

Thanks.

Document properties can be found in Word by clicking the Office
button, then "Prepare" and "Properties". Not that at the top of the
properties "bar" there is a button with an arrow called "Document
properties" where you can access the advanced properties.

Yves

 

[vtrud]

I am running Windows XP and do not find the Places Bar option. Thanks for
the other tips.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you are running Word 2007 under Windows XP, as I am, you can certainly
still add items to the Places Bar. The difference is that there is no "Add
to Places Bar" item on the Tools menu. Instead, select the desired folder in
the main window, right-click in the Places Bar, and choose "Add '<folder
name>'."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org