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Old 03-01-2007, 08:16 AM   #4
Kitsune
still eats dirt
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Tampa, FL
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the war in iraq, global warming and slippery wiimotes are not enough for you?!
Dude, all of those are silly things of no consequence. This is the OS I have to use at work. By force. A Microsoft OS. This is serious.

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Originally Posted by BigV View Post
In an application, the display mode of the file dialog is set in that application.
For everything from IE and Firefox's "Save As..." to Winamp's "Open File...", they all display Z-A by default each and every time. This tells me it is a common setting in Explorer.

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Open, say, Word. type some stuff. now, file -- save as. the dialog box displays the location and the contents in *some* way.
Ah! Word 2003 displays correctly, but the dialog box is different from other applications. It does not share the same settings as the other 'standard' file dialog boxes. Uh...wha? Who engineered this junk?

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Originally Posted by BigV View Post
Change that way, using the little view icon thingy. Close the dialog box. Close the application (word). Now reopen it. type some more stuff. choose file -- save as. How does it display? *for me* it displays in the same way it did the last time it was opened. Set it and forget it.
Under Word with its specialized dialog box that has preview functionality, etc, yes. Under everything else that uses the standard Explorer 'Save As'/'Open...' dialog box, the changes don't stick.

Word on top (scrolled slightly to show order), standard dialog on the bottom.
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