Default save location

[jimmy2]

Hello everyone,

I work in a school environment.

Have installed Office 2003

We have a mandatory profile for all students regardless of course/year so on.

I would like to set a default save folder for Word, im not bothered about the other office apps.

Something like:

%Student%\Desktop\Word

I'd really appreciate some help with this one guys and girls if anyone has any ideas.

Thank you in advance for any replies.

[Martin L]

Got this from The office experts thanks to Suat Ozgur

Please open a new text file (notepad) and copy and paste the following code into this file. Change the path variable with yours and save it as wordpath.vbs on server machine.

I used "C:\My Documents\New DocFolder" as sample path to set.

'This is a VBScript code

'Save this code by using .vbs extension

'It can be executed by double clicking on the file

dim wrdapp

dim newpath

'New Path should be set at following line

newpath = "C:\My Documents\New DocFolder"

set wrdapp = createobject("Word.Application")

wrdapp.visible=true

wrdapp.options.DefaultFilePath(0)=newpath

wrdapp.quit

msgbox "Done!"

This code can be used as a VBA macro in Word also but executing the code will be easier as a VBScript file. You can put this file on the server and ask users to execute them. No need to make sure if Word Macros are enable or not since we don't use the code in a word document.

hope this will help you

[jimmy2]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I'm still having bother with it.

Students would be unable to execute any files from a server.

Is it possible then to write a script for all students which I only have to run once ?

I should say that we use a master image, so if I could do something on the masterimage

which will allow me to force all students to save to desktop?

Or put something in the Startup folder to modify the Save Location.

I dont have alot of time so any help is much appreciated.

Very very grateful

thanks again.

Edited August 6, 2007 by jimmy2