Re: default folder for Word 97 documents

I seem to remember that Windows 98 did not use the profile path for My
Documents. This came with Windows ME. It would be a plan to search for the
My Documents folder and enter its true path.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> My Documents is a fiction; the actual path is C:\Documents and
> Settings\<profile name>\My Documents. But you should be able to
> navigate to the folder in the Modify dialog. Unfortunately, this
> navigation is not reflected in the dialog in the "Folder name" box in
> recent versions of Word. What you can do, however, is navigate to the
> correct folder, then use the Up One Level arrow to go to the next
> highest level. Select the folder in the window and choose Open. This
> will open an Explorer window in which you can use Ctrl+C to copy the
> file path from the address bar and Ctrl+V to paste it into the
> "Folder name" box.
>
>
> "PrScooter" <PrScooter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1962F846-6665-4DFB-A54A-3D84453AD49A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Thank you for the info. I tried to modify it to My Documents and it
>> said that Word could not find that folder. I then tried
>> c:\mydocuments and c:\My Documents and without the C:\ I am not
>> sure what I'm doing wrong.
>>
>> "garfield-n-odie" wrote:
>>
>>> In Word, click on Tools | Options | File Locations. Modify the
>>> folder for "Documents" to whatever you want.
>>>
>>> PrScooter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a way to make My documents the default folder for
>>>> documents created by Word 97? It seems they are going to
>>>> "winword", a subdirectory under MSOffice. The comuputer was
>>>> donated to us (a church) and has Windows 98 and Word 97 on it.
>>>> Thanks for any help you can give.


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