DISPLAY FILE PATH IN WORD 2007?

[brucehogmanalu...@discussions.microsoft.com]

How do I display the full file path in Word 2007 when editing the same named
document in two sessions, where those documents reside on two separate
servers or paths?

Word 2003 provided the VIEW, TOOLBARS, WEB menu selection choices to show
the full file path and name. That made it very easy to know which document
you were working with, as well as to make it very easy to insert a document
into email as an attachment.

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[brucehogmanalu...@discussions.microsoft.com]

[Jay Freedman]

Right-click the Quick Access Toolbar and choose the Customize item.

In the Customize dialog, set the category to Commands Not in the Ribbon.

Select the Document Location command and click the Add button in the center
of the dialog, then click OK.

The document's full path will be in the box on the Quick Access Toolbar. You
can click in the box and copy the content to the clipboard, or scroll it
left and right with the arrow keys to read the whole path.

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[brucehogmanalu...@discussions.microsoft.com]

Thanks.
Adding the "DOCUMENT LOCATION" item under that quick access toolbar shows
the document's full path.
This is the way to accomplish the WORD 2003 VIEW,TOOLBARS,WEB display of the
full path of the document in WORD 2007.

Many thanks.
BTW, WORD 2007 HELP was completely without help on this topic.

[Stefan Blom]

See the reply in the other thread.

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[Roll@discussions.microsoft.com Gary Roll]

I can't seem to find the other thread, can you direct me to that or provide
the solution? I would like to be able to display the full file path in Word
and Excel

Thanks!

[Graham Mayor]

Display it where? In the title bar?

You need a macro saved in the normal template

Word 2007:

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
End Sub

Excel 2007:
Ask in an Excel forum

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[Gary Roll]

The macro does accomplish what I was looking for, thanks for providing that.

Word 2003 has an option to display a Web menu toolbar which would
automatically display the full file name path as one of the toolbars if
selected. I was looking for an equivalent in Word 2007, but have not been
able to find that. It's easy enough to run the macro if you want to have that
info, but the old option was nice in that it displayed automatically as part
of the Web toolbar.

[Jay Freedman]

The "other thread" that Stefan referred to was in fact the beginning of this
thread back on July 22, to which I replied with the answer you're looking for:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.docmanagement/browse_thread/thread/d524f2b7fc983633/a2d213cd8c3f242f?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#a2d213cd8c3f242f

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