27 November 2024

Office file navigation with useless Quick Access suggestions. Solved using... Quick Access Toolbar

The problem

Recently, when PowerPoint, Word or other office program Opening a document or saving it under another name office started showing a list of useless quick access locations that I don't use. These are locations from my organisations so I guess it shows the locations that are most used, organisation wide.

I have to scroll all the way down to get to the Browse menu item and navigate to the location I want to save to.

The solution: opening a document

When opening a document you can click on the folders tab in the right window pane to get a list of folders recently used by you. 

The solution: Save as...

For Save as... you can work around this Quick Access nuisance using another Quick Access:

  1. In the window header bar you can click the little arrow down next to the powerpoint (or word,...) icon, which opens the Customize Quick Access Toolbar menu
  2.  Select More commands.
  3. IN the window that pops up, scroll down in the left list and select Save As 
  4. Click the Add button in between the lists
  5. Click OK

 Now a small diskette with a pen icon is shown in your window header bar.

Clicking the icon will immediately  open up an explorer to browse to the desired location.

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