Office 2003 - Force Save As default directory?

[theknight571]

OK... here's the situation:

Software: Windows XP, Office 2003... including Outlook 2003... all updates applied.

User opens an attachment from Outlook and a temp file is created in Outlook's "temp" directory... so far so good.

User does a Save As on that document and the Save As dialog defaults to Outlook's "temp" directory... user doesn't understand... doesn't pay attention... etc.

Is there a way to "force" the default directory that comes up in the Save / Save As dialog to be something other than the directory the file was opened from? i.e. My Documents?

I found an article somewhere on how to change that "temp" directory... but I don't want to do that ... just make it so the user doesn't need to remember to change the directory when saving the file.

Thanks

 

[imported_Jdo]

Yes I want to know as well if there's a way to change the default directory from "My Documents" to something else.

 

[theknight571]

Originally posted by: Jdo
Yes I want to know as well if there's a way to change the default directory from "My Documents" to something else.

I know you can change the default document location by:

Tools... Options... File Locations (tab)

Then change the Documents setting under file types.


However... when you do a "Save As" it defaults to whatever directory the file was opened from... but I'd like to some how force the Save As to default to the "My Documents" or whatever directory I specify.