Actually, there is a way to force word to look in specified folders and save there, but its rather complicated. You'll have to go into thr program files folder, find the folder where your copy of office has been installed, then search for winword.exe. Once found, hit your context ment key or shift-f10 and choose send to and desktop create shortcut and enter on ok. Then go to the desktop and find the shortcut you just made and bring up a context menu for that and choose properties. You should be put automatically in the shortcut tab, but if not, just get there. Tab to the start in field and change it to whatever path you want word to automatically show you when your saving or opening and just hit ok, and you should be good to go. hth Jason Symes kids in the backseat can cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat can cause kids The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. (Arthur C. Clarke) if you stand for nothing you're liable to fall for anything. If it weren't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all! Just trying to plug away!