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:
- Select the directory you want to access quickly
- Tools - Add to my places
- 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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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.
September 20th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Glad it helped Matt :)
September 20th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Love speed tips!
My how to is up.
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
September 20th, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Simple and effective! Great tip.
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!!
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! :)
September 25th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Excellent! I’ve been wanting to do exactly that for years! Thanks :)
January 18th, 2007 at 8:22 am
I’ve enjoyed your site, thank you!