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by johann

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When I have created a Word XP document and want to save it to another folder that is not in the My Documents folder, I click on the Up one level button, but XP does not take me up one level from the My Documents folder, it goes all the way to the Desktop and I have to navigate back to my profile and then to the folder I want. Does anyone know how to change that so it will actually go up just one level?

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by simonod

your XP is working fine, simply put the My Documents folder is part of the desktop enviroment, so clicking up one level is taking you back to the root of the my documents folder, the desktop.

You could create a directory somewhere else, then create a shortcut on your dekstop, this would then show up when you click desktop when you open a save window, allowing you to quickly navigate to your directory.

hope this helps

by thechas

With XP, Microsoft decided that My Documents should be structured as a sub folder of My Computer rather than simply part of the C: drive.

There are 2 things you can do.

Change the default folder for Word to the folder you use.

Click on the arrow at the right of the file name rather than the up one folder arrow.
Clicking on the down arrow brings up a list of devices attached to My Computer.

Chas

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