Word macros and saving a file

I found an annoying feature in Word 97. I am trying to make an idiot proof forms for an older user, who?s not very familiar with windows enviroment. We are using Unix server (unix based database solutions) along with Novell network (files,printing) and NT workstations.

Idea is that the user opens the database from Unix (medical) and selects the patient. Unix command makes a new folder for the name, if it does not exist yet. Then unix opens that folder in Explorer on the NT workstation and the doctor sees the word forms copied in that folder. The doctor double clicks some form and my problem starts...

We wanted to save those filled forms to that same folder they were opened from. I made a macro and connected it to a button. The macro would save the .doc (!) file to the patients own folder using an other predefined name.

I have allways thought that word saves a file to the same folder it was opened from but that is not the case with a simple macro. It seems to use the default folder set in word preferences and not the folder on our unix system. Word?s .dot files make it even more difficult.

User can?t be trusted to do the saving. They often click them selves to some other location and ques who has to find the lost files. How would you do this ?