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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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.
Glad it helped Matt :)
Love speed tips!
My how to is up.
Unbelievable… simple but effective…why didnt I think about it before? I guess this what blognetworking is all about…thks for sharing the tip
Simple and effective! Great tip.
Sounds quite interesting, thanks! Our list is up as well if you’d like to check it out!!
Thank you for contributing to the ProBlogger Writing Project – this “how to” is going to help me quite a bit! :)
Excellent! I’ve been wanting to do exactly that for years! Thanks :)
I’ve enjoyed your site, thank you!