Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!bbx!hlthnt!system From: system@hlthnt.UUCP (Steve Ginn ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: WFW Default Directory Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 22:55:56 GMT References: <3724@orbit.cts.com> Organization: Health-Net Systems, Inc. El Paso, TX Lines: 39 glamdrng@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Rocky Lhotka) writes: > YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET writes: > >Currently, WFW default to the WINWORD directory to store documents. This is > >really stupid, because in an office environment, file management is a must. > >No matter how many times you tell people to put their documents in the > >C:\DOCUMENT directory, they still end up putting them in the default dir. > > > >Is there any way to change the WFW default document directory? I want > >documents to automatically go into the C:\DOCUMENT directory. > > > >Roger Rouse > >Database Administrator > >MTU -- Youth Programs > > > You should be able to put W4W on your path (or search drives if on a network) > and then change the icon for W4W so it executes the following: > > c:\documents\winword.exe > > You will get a couple warnings from Windows about this, but it will work. > Your default directory will be c:\documents and windows will search your path > to find winword.exe to run. > Glamdring, Sword of Mithradir > Just make an alteration to the startup macro file which Word looks for upon start up. You can set a variety of customized start up features with this type of modification and you see any warnings from windows at all. Following this same type of thinking, you can set up a different macro or even make the startup maco prompt you for a particular directory you wish to start in. Just about every feature (i.e., menus, function keys, etc.) are controlled by the macros and they can all be modified by the user. You could even change the menu names if you wanted to! Steve Ginn E-Mail: ...unmvax!bbx.basis.com!hlthnt!postmaster