When I press file open in word, excel or lotus 123, I want the file to
be listed alphabetically with details - file size, date of
modification etc to be provided. I can press the details button &
double click file name title to get this done for my current session,
however when I go back into excel, I must repeat above steps.

What's the solution?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 28 Oct 2005 14:40 PDT

schmerold...

I'm not sure I understand the question. I have an older version
of Excel, from Office 97, but when I use the File Open dialog,
if I click on the Details button, all the details you mentioned
become visible, and the files are listed in alphamunerical order
by default.

If I then close Excel and re-open it, this view is retained when
I next select File Open. The same is true with Word. Is it that
this used to work the same way for you, and now something has 
changed, or has this never worked for you?

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by schmerold-ga on 02 Nov 2005 10:36 PST

Office 97 does seem to keep the file open setting on my home computer
running Windows 2000. However, on my work computer running Win98 it
does not. Any ideas?

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 02 Nov 2005 13:06 PST

schmerold...

Aside from dmrmv-ga's suggestion, it may be that the work
computer has some administrative settings which prevent
such changes from being retained. Then again, Windows 98
may simply not have the ability to retain these settings
in the File Open dialog. Is your friend able to log onto
the work computer as administrator?

sublime1-ga

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Clarification of Question by schmerold-ga on 07 Nov 2005 09:11 PST

He's running W98, so there's no admin mode. It is possible to do this
in W98 - it used to work fine, then one day, it quit working. That's
how the question came up.

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Request for Question Clarification by sublime1-ga on 25 Nov 2005 13:31 PST

schmerold...

This question is about to expire. Did you get anywhere with this?

sublime1-ga

I get the same thing as sublime1.

However, I think we may be getting our wires crossed on terminology. 
I see nothing that says 'Details'.  There 'is', however, an icon that,
when mouseovered, says "Views."  The Icon appears directly to the
right of the icon that looks like a "folder."  Try pressing that one
to get/maintain the last viewed way to open files (with details).

Office 97 does seem to keep the file open setting on my home computer
running Windows 2000. However, on my work computer running Win98 it
does not. Any ideas?

In Windows Explorer, go to Tools>Folder Options>View. One of the
options you can check is "Remember Folder Settings" (on Windows 2000
anyway, and I think it was in  98 as well). You can also set folder
options for one folder and apply it to all folders so you only have to
set up one folder with Details and apply to all.

This question is being asked for a client of mine. I'm waiting to hear
back regarding whether it was successful or not. Sorry for the delay.