I checked the related topics that poped up when I typed in my title and they did not answer my question. How do I change the default directory when saving or doing a "save as" for documents? I need to be able to change this back to the original default and regularly change this this as I do a lot of saving documents to different folders. Thank you, Juanita

I should not that the documents I am currently working with, saving are PDFs - they seem to save to different folders vs MS Office docs always automatically save to the "My Documents" folder by default

The default for File Save As is determined by the individual program you are using. For IE, its the last location used in the previous Save As. FireFox has an add on called Automatic Save Folder that lets you define save locations by File Type. I don't believe a similar add on exists for IE or Chrome. Jerry

So it's not the operationg system or the program itself that determines the default file save as location but its the internet browser that's being used? Do I understand that correctly? What if there is no browser being used at the time? Sorry I'm not a techie

If you are using a browser to download and/or read a pdf , its the browser that determines default save as location. If you open a pdf viewer (Adobe Reader, etc) to read a pdf, its the viewer program that determines the save as location. Jerry

Ahhhh, understood now. Thank you