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From: dak@hparc0.HP.COM (Dave Kruger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: WFW Default Directory
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Date: 8 Jan 91 02:25:36 GMT
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/ hparc0:comp.windows.ms / <YTHPRGDB@MTUS5.BITNET> /  7:15 am  Dec 29, 1990 /

> Is there any way to change the WFW default document directory?  I want
> documents to automatically go into the C:\DOCUMENT directory.

This question was asked a while back (in this notes group, I think).  Someone
replied--I don't remember that worthy's name--along the lines of some of the
previous responses in this string, that is, you need to modify/create the
AutoExec startup macro.  The suggestion was:

	Sub MAIN
	defdir$ = GetProfileString$("defdir")
	ChDir defdir$
	EndSub

You also need to add the following line in your WIN.INI file in the
[MicrosoftWord] section:

	defdir=C:\DOCUMENT

Of course, you must substitute the appropriate directory name for your
installation.

This seems convoluted to me (especially if, as someone else has mentioned, a
simple "ChDir C:\DOCUMENT" statement in the AutoExec macro works), but I use it
and it works well.  Thanks to the kind person who suggested it.

STICK THE BOOTS IN FLAG: ON

I can guess what the above commands do, but don't know for sure.  To know this,
I would have to buy the "Microsoft Word for Windows Technical Reference".  If
*that* book is as atrocious as the rest of the W4W documentation (and Microsoft
documentation in general) it would be a great waste of money.  Fair Dinkum,
I've never seen such hopeless documentation as that which comes with W4W.

There, I feel much better now.  If anyone at Microsoft is listening, care to
comment?

STICK THE BOOTS IN FLAG: OFF


Regards,

Dave K.