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From: sip1@quads.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Word For Windows Help
Message-ID: <1991May6.163250.8083@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 16:32:50 GMT
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In article <5042@ztivax.UUCP> yip@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Yeung-Cho Ip) 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
>My way of doing it: I set up a makro called "AutoExec". This Makro is
>automatically started when invoking WINWORD. The contents of the makro is:
>Sub MAIN
>ChDir "c:\winword\doc"
>End Sub

Sage advice -- that's the way I do it.  However, I've now noticed that if I
double click on a file in, say, the DOS Executive (or presumably File
Manager) that is not in that default subdirectory (nor in a subdirectory on
the PATH), Word for Windows won't be able to find it.  I thought Windows
passed the entire path.  Or is Word just getting confused?

T.F.S.
Timothy F. Sipples				sip1@quads.uchicago.edu