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From: press@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Barry Press)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word For Windows Help
Message-ID: <1068@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 91 16:13:24 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.121603.23113@cbfsb.att.com>
Reply-To: press@venice.sedd.trw.com (Barry Press)
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1991Apr24.121603.23113@cbfsb.att.com> nll@cbnewsb.att.com (neal.l.leitner) writes:
>I am using Word version 1.1 in windows 3.0.  I have set up a special 
>directory c:\winword\doc for all my document files.  When I go to open
>a file, it always defaults to my c:\windows directory.  Is there any
>way to get the open command to look at my other directory??

There are (at least) two basic ways to do what you want:

1.	If you tend to launch winword from an icon in the program manager, then
	you can go into file properties for the icon and set the path for
	winword -- i.e., the program to execute would become
	c:\winword\doc\winword.exe.  As long as c:\winword is in your path,
	this does what you want.  You have to ignore the error message
	when you hit OK, and after you set this up you have to go back
	in and change the icon back to the right winword file.

2.	You go into WordBASIC and put an autoopen macro into your normal
	template.  I think there's some stuff on cica.cica.indiana.edu
	to do this.

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