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Small trick with the My Places Bar in Word
July 13, 2007
To enhance the user interaction experience of a SharePoint environment, it's a nice little trick to add a shortcut to a SharePoint site or list to the My Places Bar. Since we had forgotten all about this trick and stumbled upon it today, we're documenting it in this post.
In Word 2003...
- Open a Word document.
- Choose File > Save As.
- Navigate to a SharePoint site or list (by entering its URL in the File name text box).
- Choose Tools > Add to "My Places"
In Word 2007...
- Open a Word Document.
- Choose Save As > Word document.
- Navigate to a SharePoint site or list (by entering its URL in the File name text box).
- Right-click an empty space in the My Places Bar and choose Add '[name of site or list]
The following screenshot shows the result in Word 2007:
