In Excel 2003 there used to be a command that I added to my toolbar that was called Address (if I remember correctly) and it would show the fully-qualified network path to the f
Answer to my own question. The only way I have found that works consistently and instantaneously is to:
1) Create a link in my "Favorites" to the directory I use
2) Update the properties on that favorite to be an absolute path (\\ads\IT-DEPT-DFS\Data\MAILROOM)
3) When saving a new file, I navigate to that directory only via the Favorites directory created above (or you can use any Shortcut with an absolute path)
4) After saving, go to the File tab and the full path can be copied from the top of the Info (default) section