I use Windows 7. Since a few weeks, the behavior of "Save as" changed under all MS office programs I use (Excel, Word, Project). The behavior now is:
- I open a document say D:\dir1\subdir1\subdir2…\subdir5\Document_old.doc or D:\dir2\subdir6\subdir7…\subdir10
- I make changes and want to save as document_new.doc in the same folder
- I click save as and get, be default, my Documents library as a save path
The behavior I want as default is to save the changed document in the same folder as the original.
There are possible workarounds, like having favorites in the explorer so I find my target paths easier. Due to the document handling we use at work this is not practical further down than subdir1 in my example, so I still have a lot of clicks to do. I looked under 'options' within excel and found no way to change the save-as behavior.
To be clear, having one default save location, no matter where, does not solve my problem as I'm working in many directories at any moment.
By contrast, xchange viewer lets me pick "Dir containing the document" as default save-as …' location.
How can I change the behavior back to save in the dir containing the document by default?
Best Answer
In my version 2017 Use the function button F12 on top of your keyboard, this activates the traditional "save as" without all the options, and you get the fast shortcut as an added advantage.