The "go up one level" icon doesn't display on the Open dialog with any of the 2010 products, which we just upgraded to a week or so ago. (I'm posting this in the PowerPoint forum because that's the application I happen to be working in right now.) The dialog displays all the folders in the window on the left, but I can't figure out how to set the default folder. So it defaults to the root folder in "My Documents," rather than a folder further in, where I actually need it to be.

When I want to open a new file in another folder, I can no longer click an icon to just go up one level and then down into the folder I need. I have to go to the folders in the window on the left, beginning with My Documents, and click, click, click, click, click (I counted five unnecessary keystrokes, in my case). It's very irritating to lose functionality and efficiency I have counted on for 20 years.

Am I missing something? There are Back arrows, but these only function if you navigate in this session and decide to go back to a level you visited before IN THIS SESSION. They gray out as soon as you close the dialog and begin again, so I'm stuck with navigating through the folders on the left.



Where are the settings that control this?? I need to the Open dialog useful again, and I don't know how!

Thanks!

Not sure I followed that but can't you change the default folder in File > Options > Save > default folder?

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Yeah, I checked that first. It looks good, but that's only for saving, I guess. My problem is with navigating to a file I want to open. I would just use Explore and double click a file to open it from there, rather than in the application, but it has the same wacky setup.

I'm not seeing that. if I change the default save folder then File Open defaults to that folder here.

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It doesn't do that with me. It seems to always open to the last folder I was in. But even if it did go back to the primary folder, I just want to navigate up one level from wherever I am and then go down. That's all I want: go up one folder from wherever I am, and then go down. Just like it used to be. That's all. If it can't be reset anywhere in any application, it's simply bad design, and I'd love to have the personal cell phone number of the product manager.