When I come to a place in many programs where I need to select a file from meory a window open in which I can navigate to the file and then select it for whatever program I"m using.
1. The window is very small in size and covers only a few files. CAN THE SIZE OF THE WINDOW BE SET SOMEPLACE FOR ALL WINDOWS APPLICATIONS?
2. The default view is "List". CAN THIS DEFAULT VIEW BE CHANGED TO "DETAILS' (which is what I usually use, since I want to sort the files by date as a rule)?
As usual, none of the "helps" I have tried have been any use at all.
Hope that Help! can fill the bill.
I know that this is very late response, but here goes....
The dialog that you are talking about is the Windows File Browse dialog. MS has provided this as a programmable object to programmers and most use it "as is". There is nothing that a typical user can do to change the behavior of this dialog -- the programmer who created it (or just didn't bother to modify the off-the-shelf behavior of this code) is responsible for setting the look, feel and behavior of this dialog window. Once the code is released as part of an application, you are stuck.
There are other file browser programs available, but they typcially don't modify the application program (ie, Word) to call the substitute Browse Window, so you relly don't get the solution that you want. You have to run them independently, like a file search program.