adding shortcuts to open window, save window, and save as window

[JimRobbins]

I would like to add shortcuts to my open window, save window, and save as
window (dialogs?).

How do I do this?

Thanks,

 

[Bob I]

Those are contained within the program you neglected to name.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Those are contained within the program you neglected to name.

I don't think so. OP is talking about the column of shortcuts on the
left side of the standard Open and Save dialogs that all programs use.
There are four of them, Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, and
My Computer. AFAIK, you can't alter that list.

 

[Bob I]

I don't think so. OP is talking about the column of shortcuts on the
left side of the standard Open and Save dialogs that all programs use.
There are four of them, Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, and
My Computer. AFAIK, you can't alter that list.

Sure you can, for example in Office 2007, open the "Open dialog", in the
file selection pane, highlight a folder, now R-click in the pane with
Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents and My computer and then pick
Add "what ever you selected".

 

[Bernd]

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Sure you can, for example in Office 2007, open the "Open dialog", in the
file selection pane, highlight a folder, now R-click in the pane with
Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents and My computer and then pick
Add "what ever you selected".

The best solution AFAIK is using TweakUI. You find it there under
Common Dialogs --> Places Bar (that's the official name of that GUI
element).

Bernd

 

[Tim Slattery]

Sure you can, for example in Office 2007, open the "Open dialog", in the
file selection pane, highlight a folder, now R-click in the pane with
Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents and My computer and then pick
Add "what ever you selected".

Very nice feature. But Office uses it's own version of the standard
dialog, and they seem to have added that feature for Office 2007, it's
not in Office 2003.

Other apps don't have access to that. If I use File|Open in Textpad,
for example, the standard XP File Open dialog is shown. (It lives in
one of the system DLLs, all programs can use it.) You can't add
anything to the left column in that dialog. Somebody mentioned
TweakUI, which I have no firsthand experience with. Maybe that would
work.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Very nice feature. But Office uses it's own version of the standard

dialog, and they seem to have added that feature for Office 2007, it's
not in Office 2003.

Not correct, Tim

The "My Places" bar has been alterable through many versions of Excel..

2000 and 97 versions required a registry hack to make changes.

Since then, just drag and drop a folder to the bar.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:19:29 -0400, Tim Slattery <[email protected]> wrote: