[Terry Button]

I write large amounts of text of a technical nature. I find it necessary to
log onto several drives at once; C drive, A drive, remote web-site and F
drive (memory stick). Can I display the current drive on screen so that I
know at a glance which one I am on?

[Jay Freedman]

If you customize a toolbar (in Wordd 2003 or earlier) or the Quick
Access Toolbar (in Word 2007 or 2010) to add the Document Location
dropdown, it will show the full path of the currently active document.

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:03:02 -0700, Terry Button Terry
wrote:

I write large amounts of text of a technical nature. I find it necessary to
log onto several drives at once; C drive, A drive, remote web-site and F
drive (memory stick). Can I display the current drive on screen so that I
know at a glance which one I am on?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

When using Word, you should only work with documents that are located on the
Hard Drive, NEVER with documents that are located on a memory stick.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Terry Button" Terry wrote in message
...
I write large amounts of text of a technical nature. I find it necessary
to
log onto several drives at once; C drive, A drive, remote web-site and F
drive (memory stick). Can I display the current drive on screen so that I
know at a glance which one I am on?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

When using Word, you should only work with documents that are located on the
Hard Drive, NEVER with documents that are located on a memory stick.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Terry Button" Terry wrote in message
...
I write large amounts of text of a technical nature. I find it necessary
to
log onto several drives at once; C drive, A drive, remote web-site and F
drive (memory stick). Can I display the current drive on screen so that I
know at a glance which one I am on?

[Graham Mayor]

You can display the path of the current document in the Word title bar by
adding the following line to an autopen macro in the normal template

ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName

However you should never ever open documents from floppy drive and it is
inadvisable to open documents from flash drive. These are the biggest causes
of data loss.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Terry Button" Terry wrote in message
...
I write large amounts of text of a technical nature. I find it necessary
to
log onto several drives at once; C drive, A drive, remote web-site and F
drive (memory stick). Can I display the current drive on screen so that I
know at a glance which one I am on?

[Graham Mayor]

You can display the path of the current document in the Word title bar by
adding the following line to an autopen macro in the normal template

ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName

However you should never ever open documents from floppy drive and it is
inadvisable to open documents from flash drive. These are the biggest causes
of data loss.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



"Terry Button" Terry wrote in message
...
I write large amounts of text of a technical nature. I find it necessary
to
log onto several drives at once; C drive, A drive, remote web-site and F
drive (memory stick). Can I display the current drive on screen so that I
know at a glance which one I am on?