Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu!todd From: todd@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: WFW Default Directory Message-ID: <10847@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Date: 7 Jan 91 05:19:40 GMT References: <3724@orbit.cts.com> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 43 In article system@hlthnt.UUCP (Steve Ginn ) writes >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 Umm... I may be missing something here... I've read about three suggestions and haven't seen what I think Roger Rouse asked for in the first place: to set the default document directory. Roger... Here is what I do. I think it is simple and doesn't require much configuration gymnastics... WfW looks for a number of things when you start it up.. One is a macro called "AutoExec" (note where caps are). Just go to the Macro menu and create a macro called AutoExec if you don't already have one (if you do, just edit it). All you need is one line for this macro. My looks like this: chdir "C:\DOCS" I designate the drive because my winword is in D:\WINWORD (I have two hard disks on my box). If you have one big partition, then don't bother with the drive designator. This will automatically set it so you "open" to "C:\DOCS" whenever you start up WfW. Works fine for me....todd -- Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhunix!todd BITNET: todd@uhunix INTERNET: todd@uhunix.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU