Thanks Ronni. Just trying to digest all that. Looks like number 5 is my usual way of opening files.
When I SAVE Word goes to the Default Folder I have nominated in Preferences. But when I OPEN it goes straight to Documents so have to change the path to get the document I need. > On 3 Jan 2017, at 10:34 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac/word-2011-for-mac-occasionally-changes-save/742a36a9-2865-4754-a7af-75b81ec99561 > > <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac/word-2011-for-mac-occasionally-changes-save/742a36a9-2865-4754-a7af-75b81ec99561>> > > /Begin Quote: > 1) When you first launch Word (no matter how you launch it) Word's "Current > Folder" will be read from Word>Preferences>File Locations>Documents. If that > entry is blank, it defaults to the System "Documents" folder for the logged > in user. > > 2) If you open a document by double-clicking in the Finder, "Save" will save > the document to its existing folder. Save As will assume you want to change > folder and point you to the Word's default folder as set in > Word>Preferences>File Locations (usually Documents). > > When you open a document with the Finder, Word "gets sent" the document, it > doesn't get told where the document came from, so it does not update its > current folder. > > 3) When you save the first document, Word updates its "Current Save Folder" > to the location you save the document in, and remembers it; > > 4) For the second and subsequent documents, it will offer the folder where > you saved the first document. This will continue, updating the Current Save > Folder whenever you save a document into a different folder, until you quit > Word. > > 5) If, instead, you launch Word and then use File>Open from within Word to > open your documents, now Word DOES know where it got the document from, and > so it updates its Current Save Folder immediately. > > If you use Save As after number 5, Word will offer the folder from which you > opened the document. > The above behaviour is what it has always been in Mac Word: slightly > different from PC Word. The PC sends Word the file location whenever you > double-click a document, so Word updates its Current Save Folder immediately, > always. > /End Quote: > <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac/word-2011-for-mac-occasionally-changes-save/742a36a9-2865-4754-a7af-75b81ec99561 > > <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_mac/word-2011-for-mac-occasionally-changes-save/742a36a9-2865-4754-a7af-75b81ec99561>> > > Cheers, > Ronni > > Sent from Ronni's iPad4 > > > On 2 Jan 2017, at 10:26 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com > <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: > >> I don’t get it. >> >> Although I have the default file location set in Preferences/File Locations, >> Files still save and open from another location. >> >> Any ideas please folks ? >> >> Regards, >> Stephen Chape >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml>> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml >> <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml>> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape
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