Is there a Word field code for the folder path?

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Published on 2010-02-12T14:19:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 7:23 UTC
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In MS Word you can insert a field code to show the document file name with the option to include or not the full path.

What I want is to only insert the folder path excluding the file name.

Macros are not an option. Can this be done?

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