Office 2007 Save Folders not Sticky 1

[PeterMoran]

Hi,

I am frustrated as a latecomer to Vista and Office 07.

Why oh why, when I save a doc or xls to a folder, does Windows Vsta not remember the folder, so that when I next want to save and it is to the same folder, I have to find the folder again?

This was the way things worked with XP and suited me fine.

Is there somewhere a box I can tick to change what is currently happening here so the the last folder I used is remembered, rather than the default.

Thanks in anticipation.

Peter Moran

 

[tf1]

The reason is that Word (and other Office Apps) now use a Windows Explorer Pane as the Save/Open dialog rather than having their own dialogs as in previous incarnations.

If you open Windows Explorer, the left-hand pane is called the Navigation pane and at the top is the Favourites list. You can add and remove folders to and from this list. I always remove the obvious garbage default entries and add the folders that I need to use most frequently. These folders can be on any disk that the computer can use.

This works really well once you get the hang of it. For instance, if I have just come back from holiday with from (for example) Santa's Grotto, I'll create a folder called SantaG in my Photo partition and then add it to the favourites list. All the while I am loading and editing the photos, the folder will stay on the Favorites list. Once complete, I'll remove it from the Favourites list but the folder - of course - is still in the Photo partition.

You can do exactly the same for projects that you create in Word. Create a project folder (in My Documents?) and add it to the Favourites list.

This is FAR better than a sticky mess when you are working regularly between different folders. You can add several folders to the Favourites whilst you need them. With the sticky folder method you are forced to keep changing folder manually. So the latter is infinitely better.

PS Windows 7 with Aero Peak is even better.

Regards: Terry

 

[PeterMoran]

Hi Terry,

Thanks for your advice and thoughts.

Will investigate Favourites further.

Peter Moran