Setting the default opening and saving folder

• Display the Save options within the Word Options dialog box.
  
  
  

• You can use the Default file location section of the dialog box to set the folder that by default will be looked at when you open files within Word.  This folder will also be used as the default folder location when saving new documents.

• Click on the Browse button and set this default folder to the folder containing your sample files (i.e. the Word 2010 Basics folder).  Close the dialog box. 

• Click on the File Tab and then click on the Open icon. 
  
  
  

• You should see that by default files in your sample folder are displayed.

• Create a new document and then click on the Save icon.  You should see that by default the file will be saved to the folder containing your sample files.  Cancel the file saving and close the new document that you have just created without saving it.
  

• If you have time investigate some of the other Word customization options.