I'm running Office 2003 in Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 7) with no visible issues.
Except that when I want to save a Word document using "Save As" it prompts me for all sorts of unsuitable locations...My Music, My Pictures, My Videos, and some random programs which somehow landed up in the "Documents" folder. None of the shortcuts I'd like to see there (and which are in the folder, because I put them there!) show up. What to do?
What do you have defined for where documents should be saved under Tools->Options->File Locations?
Yes that is correct - at present it points to "Documents". However, the problem is what appears WITHIN "Documents" - alas, no folder appears that I would want to save a file into!
I want to be able to control what folders show up WITHIN whatever folder "Save As" points me to. My impression is (memory is a little weak) that under Windows 7, by moving shortcuts onto the desktop, I was to get a set of useful folders showing whenever I clicked "Save As". Now I get useless folders which have no relevance to any save I might want to perform.
To elaborate on my issue a little. I use Dropbox to store most of my files. Besides the Dopbox folder itself, there are a number of highly-used sub-folders within Dropbox that I would want to have immediately available when I click "Save As". If my memory serves me well, under Windows 7 I was able to achieve that by placing the appropriate shortcuts on the Desktop and clicking "Desktop" as the "Save As" location. The result was a crowded menu, but the desired items were there. Now - presumably because of some decision by Microsoft to clean things up - many fewer items appear, and certainly none of the shortcuts which I would like to see.
Ok, I tried doing the shortcut thing and it doesn't work for me in Win 10 either. I can't test whether it works in Win 7 or not since I don't have a Win 7 box with Office 2003 on it.
Why not point the File Location option mentioned above to your Dropbox folder (or even a documents folder within DropBox)? Seems that should do the trick for you. I tried it on my machine and it works great that way.
I have the exact same problem as Matthew. I want to "save as" in different places on my computer and With windows 7 it used to be easy, I have made shortcuts to the different folders in one place, but after upgrading to windows 10 it doesn't read the shortcuts anymore. It worked fine with win7.
I would love to get a solution to this problem
I have this problem as well. I have shortcuts to frequently used file folders on my desktop, and when I try to save a document ("save as") no shortcuts come up. This is a new problem since I upgraded to Windows 10.
Same here. All shortcuts (particularly to folders) don't show up in the Open/Save dialogs (of Office 2003, that is).
Any hack appreciated.
(If possible pls. dispense with comments like "don't use Office 2003 then" and similar)
Thanks!
I actually spent a day upgrading a system copied from an old dead XP machine to Windows 10 (in stages, first to Vista, then W7, then W10) in order to preserve a licenced copy of Office 2003
I'm afraid that's because there is none. Office 2003 just doesn't know how to handle Windows 10's shortcuts. You see, the File Open/Save dialogs that Office 2003 uses is part of the Office software itself. From Office 2007 onwards the File Open/Save dialog is provided by Windows (as it is for all other apps) so any app can see and use the shortcuts. Even Notepad....
There is, as far as I can see, no workaround that can make Office 2003 or earlier versions of Office see a W10 shortcut, its code is just too old to understand them
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