We want to be able to make a user's home directory the default File-Open location. We have currently set the Documents default to a mapped drive, F:\. When we open Word and click Open, it always starts at the Documents Library. Is there a trick to tweaking Word to open F:

Hi,

Did you try:

File - Options - Advanced - (in right dialog scroll all the way down to file locations) - set documents path to the one you would like to open it to (in your case the F:\).

To test it: select file open and it should go to the mapped drive folder.

Maurice

Yes, we did try that to no avail. Word still wants to start with the Document Library. What's weird is that we have a Group Policy to redirect user's My Documents to their F: drives as well.

The steps mentioned by Maurice works for me.

Do you have any other GP deployed which might force Office starting with Document Library?

A.B

I haven't found one but will continue to investigate.