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This entry is in response to a query from a user who wanted to have the full path of a document displayed in the title bar of a currently opened Word 2007 document.

After refreshing myself from a previous post , I played around a bit with Word 2007 and found a similar solution.

Here are the steps:

1. Start the Microsoft product for which you wish to have the path displayed (for this example, Word).
2. You can either:
   • On the title bar area, you will see an icon that resembles a line with an arrow pointing down from it.  Select "More Commands…"
   • Click on the Office logo at the top left and select "Word Options."
   • Right-click on the Ribbon bar, and select "Customize Quick Accesss Bar…"
3. On the left-hand side of the pop-up window, choose "Customize."
4. To make it easier, select <Separator> , and click "Add > >"  in the middle.
5. From the pull-down list, select "Choose commands from:", and then "All Commands."
6. From the listing below, scroll down until you find "Document Location".  Select it, and click "Add > >" in the middle.
7. Click "OK" at the bottom of the window.

Now one little problem is that the displayed path is truncated in a little display window.

This is the best I can figure out for now, but you can always scroll through the little test box for the full path.

In some spare time, I will try to figure out how to have the little display box made a bit wider for longer file paths.

I have been able to test and verify with the following Office 2007 products:

Word 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007

This entry was posted on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 10:44 am and is filed under Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.