Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!spool2.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!uflorida!novavax!rm1!rm1.UUCP!myoung From: myoung@rm1.UUCP (Michael Young) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: WFW Default Directory Message-ID: <966@rm1.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 91 14:04:16 GMT References: <3724@orbit.cts.com> <10847@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> Sender: news@rm1.UUCP Reply-To: myoung@rm1.UUCP (Michael Young) Organization: Racal-Milgo, Sunrise, Florida Lines: 47 In article <10847@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, todd@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes: |> |> 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 I am also using this approach which works fine for me too. There are a couple of other things worth noting. o You may want to add the /m option (don't execute AutoExec macro) after your winword.exe definition in the [Extensions] section of win.ini. Otherwise, if you ever happen to select a document from filemgr that isn't in your DOCS directory Winword won't be able to find it, since it will execute the chdir command in your AutoExec macro before it attempts to open the .DOC file you selected from filemgr. o I have added a custom win.ini keyword to my [Microsoft Word] section called DOC-PATH (in the spirit of DOT-PATH, defined by MS) which defines where my Document directory is. Then in my AutoExec macro I request this keyword using the command "GetProfileString$()". o Another macro I have added is SetStartupPrefs which permits me to set the DOC-PATH and DOT-PATH variables in my win.ini file using the command "SetProfileString$()". |> |> -- |> Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii |> UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhunix!todd |> BITNET: todd@uhunix |> INTERNET: todd@uhunix.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU -- Mike Young -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Racal-Milgo Phone: (305) 846-6956 1601 N. Harrison Parkway Fax: (305) 846-6282 Sunrise, FL 33323-2899 MS-E115 UUCP: ...uflorida!novavax!rm1!myoung --------------------------------------------------------------------------