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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / March 2006Show other columns (kind) in Open/Save dialog box
Does anyone know if there is a way to show other columns (like kind for example) inside MS Word 2004 Open/Save dialog boxes? Gene > Does anyone know if there is a way to show other columns (like kind for > example) inside MS Word 2004 Open/Save dialog boxes? I suspect these dialogs are part of the System API and I'm not sure you really can (in any app that uses the same interface) :-\ Corentin  Signature--- Mac:MS MVP (Francophone) --- http://www.mvps.org - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com MVPs are not MS employees - Les MVP ne travaillent pas pour MS Remove "NoSpam" to e-mail me - Retirez "NoSpam" pour m'écrire Try setting your Finder to Columns View. The dialog you are seeing is actually a Finder window that is simply called by Word, and I think it somewhat follows the setting you have for your main Finder. I could be wrong, but I have the "Kind" information appearing in a second column here. Cheers On 14/3/06 10:06 AM, in article 1142291168.210748.77560@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com, "ushinsky@gmail.com" > Does anyone know if there is a way to show other columns (like kind for > example) inside MS Word 2004 Open/Save dialog boxes? > > Gene SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 No, Column view does not show the columns you're talking about. It displays Finder navigation in columns, sometimes called "browser" style. What the OP wants to get "Kind" column, etc. is LIST view . However, there is no such thing as "the setting you have for your main Finder". There is no overall Finder preference - each Finder window can be set differently. If you go to the Finder, go to View, and choose as List (or click the middle view button in a Finder window), then, again in View menu, choose "Show View Options", you can check the Kind box in the panel now displayed. Also check "All windows" at the top. That's as close as you can get to setting this as a global Finder option. All Finder windows in List view now will include a Kind column. But that doesn't help Word, which in fact is _not_ using the standard Finder window, although it's some variety of system window. In both Open and Save, there are only two view buttons - Columns and List (no Icon view like the Finder also offers). If you set it to List view, there are only two columns: Name and date Modified. At least in OS 10.4.5. Are you really saying that you also see a Kind column in List View, John in OS 10.3.9? Or are you talking about the Finder's "Preview" in Column view? There you see some info, including "Kind" under the preview, if you have - I think you must mean that, if you have "Show preview column" in Show View Options. But this does not show up in Word's Open either (and never would be able to, in Save.) I'm a bit mystified where this "Kind" you're seeing is coming from, John. I suppose it could be an OS 10.3 vs 10.4 thing, but I'm quite skeptical... SignaturePaul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be ignored. PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@mcghie.name> > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> Gene Hi Paul: On 14/3/06 9:06 PM, in article C03BD58A.C7718%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com, > But that doesn't help Word, which in fact is _not_ using the standard Finder > window, although it's some variety of system window. Yeah. It's not the "Standard" Finder window. But I understood from one of the developers that they are calling the Finder with the parameters to say how they want it to look. So I thought it is a Finder window which they have "simplified"... Maybe I mis-remembered... > Or are you talking about the Finder's "Preview" in Column view? Yes, that's the one. It looks like a "column" to me, but it has details for only the selected file. > There you see some info, including "Kind" under the preview, if you have - I > think you must mean that, if you have "Show preview column" in Show View > Options. But this does not show up in Word's Open either (and never would be > able to, in Save.) In 10.3.9 I do get it in Wod>File>Open. You're right, it could not appear in Save As or Save. Cheers SignaturePlease reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 On 3/14/06 2:45 AM, in article C03CEA0E.31AF2%john@mcghie.name, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" <john@mcghie.name> wrote: >> Or are you talking about the Finder's "Preview" in Column view? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > In 10.3.9 I do get it in Wod>File>Open. You're right, it could not appear > in Save As or Save. Hmmm. What an odd by-product of Tiger. We'll need to tell MacBU. However, I think Gene really wanted a "Kind" column in List view, but if he's still in Panther he could try out your suggestion, at least for Open dialogs, by setting Column view in the Finder View Options as you say and then clicking the (right-hand) Columns button in a Word Open dialog. SignaturePaul Berkowitz MVP MacOffice Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be ignored. PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. I'm also in 10.3.9 and I do not see a "Kind" column in *any* of the scenarios described. I have "as Columns" checked in Finder>View and the Column icon selected in the Word>File>Open dialog. The only time I ever see "Kind" is in the Finder's Preview. Beth On 3/14/06 8:44 AM, in article C03C32E5.C7786%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com, > However, I think Gene really wanted a "Kind" column in List view, but if > he's still in Panther he could try out your suggestion, at least for Open > dialogs, by setting Column view in the Finder View Options as you say and > then clicking the (right-hand) Columns button in a Word Open dialog. I am on Tiger - 10.4.5 with all the latest updates for the OS and MS Office. Paul is correct to say that I want to see a "kind" column to be able to sort by it. MS Office on the "other platform" has that ability and one of the switchers in our college has been asking about it.... Gene |
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