How to Attach and Save Files Faster

By default all MS-Office applications will remember the last location you saved or attached a file from. This may be useful feature, but what if you have a few commonly used directories? Isn’t it a drag switching between them?

How to setup a one click solution to get to your favourite directories:

  1. Select the directory you want to access quickly
  2. Tools - Add to my places
  3. The shortcut to that directory now appears on your sidebar and you can get to it instantly!

A Few Things to Note:

  • You can reorder the items on the sidebar if you want with a right click
  • This tip only seems to work with MS-Office applications.
  • An alternative workaround you can use for other applications, is to create shortcuts to your directories and place them on your desktop.

If you liked this tip: You might want to learn about other ways to save time in Outlook.

This post is part of the ‘How-To’ group writing project.

[tags]outlook, email, productivity [/tags]

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    1. 88 More ‘How To’ Articles - Group Writing Project Submission Part 2 said,

      on September 20th, 2006 at 5:54 pm

      [...] How to Attach and Save Files Faster[...]

    2. Matt said,

      on September 20th, 2006 at 7:36 pm

      This is great! I wanted to do this for a school folder I have. I did it a few years back for my undergrad. Thanks a bunch! I can from ProBlogger’s Group Writing Project. My How To is up also.

    3. James Yeang said,

      on September 20th, 2006 at 7:55 pm

      Glad it helped Matt :)

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      on September 20th, 2006 at 10:09 pm

      Love speed tips!

      My how to is up.

    5. cjcm said,

      on September 20th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

      Unbelievable… simple but effective…why didnt I think about it before? I guess this what blognetworking is all about…thks for sharing the tip

    6. Jersey Girl said,

      on September 20th, 2006 at 10:46 pm

      Simple and effective! Great tip.

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      on September 21st, 2006 at 10:24 pm

      Sounds quite interesting, thanks! Our list is up as well if you’d like to check it out!!

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      on September 22nd, 2006 at 4:35 am

      Thank you for contributing to the ProBlogger Writing Project - this “how to” is going to help me quite a bit! :)

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