I have just upgraded to XP professional on a new PC. My old PC runs WIN98SE.

On my old PC, rather than MS office opening My Documents it opens in a folder with my name on it as default. Unfortunately I cannot recall how I set this up many moons ago.

Can anyone advise on how I make MS Office applications (WORD, Excel, Publisher, etc) automatically default to opening/saving to a Folder other than My Docs? I think it is just a case of telling it, but where do I find where I tell it?

many thanks.

Go to Tools>Options>Save - highlight the Documents file type and click Modify - you can choose where to save right there

Thanks Happy Beaver. Not all the MS Office appilications could be changed as you suggested but it put me in the correct area to do it.

I now need to tranfer my IE Favourites and Outlook Express messages from the Old Win98 PC to the new XP machine. They are connected through a network connection. How can i do it and where do i find the paths and/or folders that need to be moved?

I'm running Office 2003 (having just removed Office 2006 which is buggy as hell!) so I wasn't sure which version you had... as you say, you've found it now

I haven't used win98 for over 5 years now but in XP...

Open windows explorer and navigate to c:/documents and settings>the user>all local profiles and files stored here