Jumping Around Folders

If you work with multiple documents in Word, you know that traversing folder (directory) paths in the Open dialog box can be tedious at times. For instance, let's assume you have a document on which you are working. You open a second document, this one in a different directory. (You find it and open it after clicking your way to it in the Open dialog box.)

Now it comes time to open a third document. When you display the Open dialog box, Word assumes you want to start from where you opened the previous document (document 2). What if you want to actually open it from the same directory in which the first document was located? Of course, you can again use the Open dialog box to traverse back to the original directory. An easier method may be to do the following:

1. Display the first document.
2. Choose Save As from the File menu. Word displays the Save As dialog box, starting from the directory in which the file was originally loaded. (This is the directory you want.)
3. Close the Save As dialog box by immediately pressing ESC or clicking on Cancel.
4. Now when you use the Open dialog box, it starts in the folder you were last in, which was the one displayed in step 2.