Office defaults for Save As, Attach, etc.

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geza

Has there ever been a solution devised to one of the most annoying and
time-wasting default features in Microsoft – the opening of the ‘Attach’ or
‘Save As’, etc. windows to the default ‘My Documents’, ‘My Pictures’, etc.
folders?

If I am working on a Word document or Excel and I want to save it (or attach
a document to an email), why shouldn’t I be able to save it directly to my
corresponding Word, Excel, etc. folder without going through the frustrating
steps of My Document/My Computer/C:/ and so on until one finds the folder to
save the document in.

This one deserves a prize.
 
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geza

What I meant by corresponding folders is any folder that is a subfolder of
one I created on the C drive. For example, if I create a Word document,
chances are I will want to save it under a Word folder; in my case, I have a
'parent' folder called 'Geza's files' (that's my name). Under that, I have a
folder called 'Geza's Word document', another one called 'Geza's Excel
files', etc. Ther idea is to narrow down the search for the specific folder I
want to save something in because, even though it may not be possible to
point to a specific subfolder to save it in, in my case, it will always be
one under the 'parent' folder 'Geza's files.' If the default for saving (or
attaching) is, for instance, 'My Documents' (or 'My Pictures'), then it must
be possible to change that default so that the first click opens a window
pointing to a different folder.

I hope I didn't further complicate the issue.



Patrick Schmid said:
Which corresponding Word, Excel, etc. folder do you mean?

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Has there ever been a solution devised to one of the most annoying and
time-wasting default features in Microsoft - the opening of the 'Attach' or
'Save As', etc. windows to the default 'My Documents', 'My Pictures', etc.
folders?

If I am working on a Word document or Excel and I want to save it (or attach
a document to an email), why shouldn't I be able to save it directly to my
corresponding Word, Excel, etc. folder without going through the frustrating
steps of My Document/My Computer/C:/ and so on until one finds the folder to
save the document in.

This one deserves a prize.
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Bob I

You may want to look in Word, Tools, Options, File Locations
What I meant by corresponding folders is any folder that is a subfolder of
one I created on the C drive. For example, if I create a Word document,
chances are I will want to save it under a Word folder; in my case, I have a
'parent' folder called 'Geza's files' (that's my name). Under that, I have a
folder called 'Geza's Word document', another one called 'Geza's Excel
files', etc. Ther idea is to narrow down the search for the specific folder I
want to save something in because, even though it may not be possible to
point to a specific subfolder to save it in, in my case, it will always be
one under the 'parent' folder 'Geza's files.' If the default for saving (or
attaching) is, for instance, 'My Documents' (or 'My Pictures'), then it must
be possible to change that default so that the first click opens a window
pointing to a different folder.

I hope I didn't further complicate the issue.



:

Which corresponding Word, Excel, etc. folder do you mean?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Has there ever been a solution devised to one of the most annoying and
time-wasting default features in Microsoft - the opening of the 'Attach' or
'Save As', etc. windows to the default 'My Documents', 'My Pictures', etc.
folders?

If I am working on a Word document or Excel and I want to save it (or attach
a document to an email), why shouldn't I be able to save it directly to my
corresponding Word, Excel, etc. folder without going through the frustrating
steps of My Document/My Computer/C:/ and so on until one finds the folder to
save the document in.

This one deserves a prize.
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