This seems like such a simple issue. At work I view multiple word perfect documents on our server. If I look in a folder, and then try to open up another file in the same folder, I have to go through the entire network path to get back in the folder I was/am working in.
Everyone else at my work can switch between files in the same folder just fine--without having to browse the entire network again.
Is there a setting somewhere I can go to to make my preferences the same as everyone else? I am used to Microsoft Word and Open Office~~Word scares me! Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
If you look around in the options, you should be able to find the option to change the default file location. I can't remember where it is unless I'm looking at it, and I don't have WordPerfect here.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
If I go to "tools--settings--files," I can change the default document folder, but that that is just where it opens the new folder on the network. IE...I have that set to p:/public/documents. When I open up a new word document, it always starts off where I mapped it--that is good!
The problem, is that when I open up a second file in the same folder I just opened, it goes back to the place I mapped at p:/public/documents and not in the folder I am currently in- ie "p:/public/documents/work/client_name."
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Are you completely closing down Word Perfect between documents? If you have, it will restart at your "home" folder, in this case ...client_name. If you're still on the same session, it should open to the folder you were last working in. At least that's how my home install worked before I blasted WP out in favor of Word and how both my copies of Word work.
Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
quote: If you're still on the same session, it should open to the folder you were last working in.
I know, it should work that way, but when I stay in the same session, it boots me back to the beginning of the network. Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I need a bit more description.
Are you opening a 2nd (3rd whatever) WP document by using the File/Open command from WITHIN an instance of Word Perfect that already has an open document in it?
In that case (and only in that case) would I expect the program to point to the directory from which the already opened file was retrieved. In all other cases, I would expect it to go back to the default (root?) directory.
Also, come to think of it, have you tried this in Word or any other application that opens files? I believe the function you are doing is a Windows-level call to the file open dialog and so it probably works the same in all applications that call that dialog.
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