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MS Office Forum / Word / General MS Word Questions / January 2004Open Document Dialog Box
I am currently using MS Office xp Pro on a Windows XP Pro machine. In past versions of microsoft word when I would use the Open Folder icon on the toolbar to open a document in the My Documents folder, when I would start typing in the file name text box, Word would use autocomplete and attempt to resolve the filename. Now this only seems to work if my My Documents folder is local. Of course all my documents are store in my home directory on the network server (as they have always been). I would like to regain this functionality. Is there a tweak or a checkbox that I have neglected to turn on or off. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Randy Hi Randy Try the following. File > Open. In the File name box, type say memo* and press Enter or Tab. The * acts as a wildcard and basically means "anything". So searching for files named memo* will locate all the files whose names begin with "memo", without regard for subsequent characters in the filename. You can create quite sophisticated searches very easily. So search for say *budget* would return all the letters and memos with "budget" in the middle of the name. Or you could search for for *budget, which would capture file names ending in "budget". Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word Melbourne, Australia > I am currently using MS Office xp Pro on a Windows XP Pro machine. > In past versions of microsoft word when I would use the Open Folder icon on [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Thanks > Randy Shauna: Thanks for your reply. Your suggestion does work, still the auto-resolution / auto-complete feature which works fine if the location of your My Documents folder is local, and formerly to work fine with UNC paths in Word 2000 is sorely missed. I was wondering if perchance the enabling of offline files and folders would facilitate this feature? Do you have any experience with that issue. Since the computers never leave the building offline files and folders is not needed and is not enabled. Thanks Randy > Hi Randy > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Thanks > > Randy |
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