change default open folder location

Question

When I want to open a file in any Office 2007 application, the browse window always opens to docs.  I would like it to open to a different subdirectory location but cannot find where I can customize the open to location option.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can change that option for Microsoft Office Word 2007 by following these steps but I couldn't find how to change it in other Office 2007 applications.

1 - Open Microsoft Office Word 2007

2 - Click the Office button and select Word Options

3 - Select Advanced tab

4 - Scroll down to General and click File Locations button

5 - Select Documents and click Modify button

6 - Navigate to the folder that you want to use as the new default open/save folder

7 - Click OK 3 times to close all dialog boxes

For other Office applications you may try adding that particular subdirectory to "My Places" bar which appears in the left pane of the Open/ Save As dialog boxes. That makes it much easier to navigate to your favourite places. Just follow the steps in that KB article from Microsoft Help and Support: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/826214/en-us

Answer 2

Thank you.  This worked perfect for Word.  Based on this advice I looked further into Excel and found this to work as well:

1. Open Excel
2. Click the Office button and select Excel Options
3. Select Save option
4. Enter the path to the folder desired in the Default file location space

This seems to work and I will try it with the other apps.