Re: SAVE AS default directory
- From: JE McGimpsey <jemcgimpsey@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:03:56 -0600
In article <1189111033.614205.212380@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ronald_chinn@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm running the 2004 version of Excel on a brand new PowerBook (Mac OS
X 10.4.10). I'm frustrated because the SAVE AS function appears to
default to a silly location - logically, when you hit SAVE AS, you
would expect that it would default to saving the new file into the
location from whence the original file came. I can't find a
preference setting which allows me to do this - am I just blind? Any
help would be greatly appreciated so I can stop losing files and
having them strewn about my drive.
P.S.: I note that Word does not have this program - it defaults to
placing files into the same directory as the original location. And
as far as I can remember, the Windows version of Excel does this too.
It just seems to be the Mac version.
I think your "logically, when you hit SAVE AS, you would expect that it
would default to saving the new file into the location from whence the
original file came" is common, but by no means universal logic. I get
just as frustrated with Word's method...
Most of the time, I save emailed or downloaded client files into a
sandbox folder, then, after I've edited/modified them, I Save As them to
my client hierarchy. There's no *way* I want XL files saving back to the
sandbox...
My solution: I save all my client files with the client number prefix in
the filename. I set, in my business startup addin, XL's Default file
location (Preferences/General) to my Client folder, so that it ALWAYS
defaults to that folder on Save As.
Then I use attached Mac OS X Folder actions to automatically distribute
any files saved to the Client folder into the appropriate subfolders.
.
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