Changing the default folder view in File Open dialog to be "Details" instead of "WebView".

Question

Customer of mine is now having their staff store documents on a web server.  When they navigate to the folder structure from within Word/Excel, the default view is "WebView".  Problem is, WebView is not ordered (folders appear to be random - probably the order they were created) and the users cannot start typing the folder name as they have been used to (each "main folder" often contains 100's to the low thousands of folders which are named according the the client lastname + firstname + fileno.  In their old application, from within Word, they could start typing the lastname and they would get close enough to then pick it.

Is there a way (e.g. registry setting or something) to change which view is the default view under File Open when navigating to a web space?  Note that they can change the view from WebView to Details but as soon as they go there the next time, it is back to WebView.  They do this hundreds of times a day so they will not want to keep changing it.

Note that if I navigate to the main folder via Windows Explorer, the folders show up correctly sorted and users can type to find the folder.  This shortcut was automatically created after the first time I navigated to the main folder from within Word by typing in the full url.  A shortcut was automatically created under "My Network Places" that users can navigate to.

Thanks,

Albert Gostick

Answer 1

Why won't someone from Microsoft answer this?!?! Is this a new feature in 2007??? 5 people have clicked they'd like a response and still no answer. The one and only answer applied to internet explorer, not when opening files in Excel or Work.

Answer 2

Hi,

That works for folders when viewed through Explorer but not from within Word or Excel - I am talking about the view that you see when you are in Word and you click File, Open and then I navigate to an internal web site (not IIS) and the view says it is a "WebView".  The folders are unordered.  I have to switch (every time) to "Details" view to have them ordered.

I connected to this document server (http based) by Opening Word, choosing File, Open and then typing the http path into File Name field (e.g.http://mcnux/nuxeo) (this is the name of the server (mcnux) and the service on that server (Nuxeo)).  It then asked me to authenticate to that server and once I had done so, it creates a link under "My Network Places" that can then be browsed to from within Word and Excel from that point onward.  The only problem is that the default display of the folders from that site are not ordered in any way - impossible to find something with 500 folders in it.  So I need a way of telling Word to always sort the results or to always display the "Details" view of the folders as that is sorted.

Albert

Answer 3

To specify the global settings that apply to all folders, follow these steps to restore the default windows folder settings:

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Folder Options.
2. On the View tab, click 'Reset All Folders'
3. Click on Apply and then OK.

Note This procedure resets all the folder settings to the settings that were in effect when Windows was installed.

For more information you may refer the KB article listed below:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812003