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Myself and my colleagues have an incredibly annoying issue when saving our Visio work that would save us heaps of time if we could have it fixed. Usually with other microsoft programmes like word and excel, once we have saved our work in a folder, when we go to re-save our work as a PDF for example it would usually default to the same folder the original work was saved in. Instead with Visio it defaults back to the "documents" folder and we have to click through our database to re-find the folder all over again to save the same work as a PDF. This takes up lots of time when you are for example editing lots of drawings.
Please please someone help! Its driving us all mad
Thanks in advance!
Hi, @Danny Wilson
I'm working on it and will reply if there is any progress.
Hi, @Danny Wilson
Does your question describe this situation? When saving as PDF, it will default to the document location.
Yes correct. But not just when saving as PDF, when saving as any file type.
With other office app the save location will always default to the last save location. For example. If I have saved my work in documents-clients 2022-customer name-drawings the first time I create the document. Once I have have made an edit, or tried to save again as PDF is should immediately launch the same location. But every time it defaults to "documents". Meaning I have to click through all of those folders again. Other office programs will default to the last saved location
I hope this makes sense
Thanks
Hi, @Danny Wilson
You can try to modify the location in Visio-Options-Advanced-General-File Locations as shown(the path in the screenshot is an example):
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Do not under any circumstances copy the same file path into all these fields as suggested!! This is wrong.
Thanks for sharing, I have revised my answer.
Hi, @Danny Wilson
Did you try my method? Any questions can be answered.
Better.
Visio has a built-in feature to do just this.
When you select Save-As there is a list of the most recent locations. You can pin one or more of these and they end up at the top of the list in the Pinned group.
There is also an 'Add a Place' but that seems to be broken as it only has two entries for One Drive and nothing more can be added, so you can't add a place, you can only use their suggestions. Save your files where we can have a look at them. No thank you very much.