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Why no browse buttons in Office options?
I like the new office a lot, but there was one small disappointment. For
years, Word has been the only piece of software in the office suite that has a browse button in the section of setup where you set a default file location. With all the others, you have to go to My Computer and cut and paste, or else type it in manually. Why is that? It's kind of annoying. Andacar ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.office.misc |
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Why no browse buttons in Office options?
"Andacar" wrote in message ... I like the new office a lot, but there was one small disappointment. For years, Word has been the only piece of software in the office suite that has a browse button in the section of setup where you set a default file location. With all the others, you have to go to My Computer and cut and paste, or else type it in manually. Why is that? It's kind of annoying. Andacar ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.office.misc I agree with your statement! But since I am not part of MS.... I can't change anything. Word was developed separately from all other programs of Office and the browse feature you speak of is apparently a hold-over from the original days of Word. Unfortunately the developers of the Office program parts haven't standardized, even in Office '07 programs, the file management setup. Hopefully in the next version of Office this will be changed. |
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Why no browse buttons in Office options?
On Sep 10, 12:39*pm, "LVTravel" wrote:
"Andacar" wrote in message ... I like the new office a lot, but there was one small disappointment. For years, Word has been the only piece of software in the office suite that has a browse button in the section of setup where you set a default file location. With all the others, you have to go to My Computer and cut and paste, or else type it in manually. Why is that? It's kind of annoying. Andacar ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm....mspx?mid=ee82.... I agree with your statement! *But since I am not part of MS.... I can't change anything. Word was developed separately from all other programs of Office and the browse feature you speak of is apparently a hold-over from the original days of Word. *Unfortunately the developers of the Office program parts haven't standardized, even in Office '07 programs, the file management setup. Hopefully in the next version of Office this will be changed. I'm not sure I understand the problem. But if you want Word to open a particular folder just add it to the places bar in the open dialogue. Pretty basic. Also, you could download filebox eXtender, which is free. It won't just work in Word. You can set up favourite folders and it does tons of other things, works in File Explorer as well. http://www.hyperionics.com/ . I'm sure there's a way |
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Why no browse buttons in Office options?
"steven" wrote in message ... On Sep 10, 12:39 pm, "LVTravel" wrote: "Andacar" wrote in message ... I like the new office a lot, but there was one small disappointment. For years, Word has been the only piece of software in the office suite that has a browse button in the section of setup where you set a default file location. With all the others, you have to go to My Computer and cut and paste, or else type it in manually. Why is that? It's kind of annoying. Andacar ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm....mspx?mid=ee82... I agree with your statement! But since I am not part of MS.... I can't change anything. Word was developed separately from all other programs of Office and the browse feature you speak of is apparently a hold-over from the original days of Word. Unfortunately the developers of the Office program parts haven't standardized, even in Office '07 programs, the file management setup. Hopefully in the next version of Office this will be changed. I'm not sure I understand the problem. But if you want Word to open a particular folder just add it to the places bar in the open dialogue. Pretty basic. Also, you could download filebox eXtender, which is free. It won't just work in Word. You can set up favourite folders and it does tons of other things, works in File Explorer as well. http://www.hyperionics.com/ . I'm sure there's a way Steven, I am not the one with the problem but was only attempting to explain to the OP why Word and other Office programs acted the way they did. What the OP was saying is that when you attempt to set the default file location for documents, graphics, template locations, etc. (in Word '03 or earlier) you would click on Tools, Options, File Locations, Documents (or the other items) and then Modify and a window opens where you can drill down to the default file location from a window and don't have to type the full path for the default. Other Office programs won't do this and you have to type the full new default file location. |
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Why no browse buttons in Office options?
Why should I have to add some chancy third party piece of software to do what
the program should do by itself? In every program I use that has remote data file locations, there is a browse button that lets you tell the program where to look for images, documents, models, etc. Maya has it. All the Adobe suite has it. Why does Word have it but nothing else in Office does? To this day you still have to manually cut and paste or type a default file path. That strikes me as the sort of thing you'd see in a program written in the 80s. It may be OK with the guys used to LINUX or something similar, but not me. Andacar |
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