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How to Add Shortcuts and Mapped Drives to Microsoft Office 2016

Department staff are requesting a solution to cut down on number of mouse clicks when adding and opening files from shared drive locations. The current routine required to browse to various file locations when email attaching or browsing to open an office document seems to require more effort than desired.

Looking for a solution to add shortcut function without need to perform registry hacks. IT department has user experiences rather locked down with active directory so answers to this issue have undesirable restrictions.

Koen

You basically have a couple of options:

- classic map network drive : this works fine to access a 'root' shared folder that is used a lot and has not too many folders underneath (otherwise again too many clicks). Biggest downside is running out of letters. Network drives can be mapped manually, using a logon script, etc...
- Network places : very similar to network drive, but no drive letter is assigned. This works really well to rapidly store and retrieve data to folders. The user can name them to be easily identified and you can have a lot of them.
- desktop shortcuts to folders : can also be addressed through the save dialog box and also give a neat direct access to folders on the network (or local for that matter).

All of these can be used through the save (as) and open dialog box of office

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Lance McGrew

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Rob Henson: your suggestion is the closest desired solution so far however Windows Outlook 2016 Attachment window only has Recent Items, Browse Web locations, and Browse This PC. If the Favorites Menu could be added without a Registry Hack, that would be the perfect solution.

Rob Henson

Browse this PC should then show Favourites.