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Clairemere
 
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What a pain! I don't understand why they would get rid of Favorites as it
before Office 2003. It was extremely useful. Chalk that one up to
stupidity. Thank you for your assistance.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

One way would be to add a shortcut to your Favorites folder to the Windows
Send To folder. Then you can create a shortcut to your document and use Send
To to send it to the Favorites folder. I'll grant you there is no really
simple way to do this. Are you already aware of the Work menu
(http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WorkMenu.htm)? This might go a long way
toward providing the functionality you need.

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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Clairemere" wrote in message
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Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, as I see I'm not the only

one
upset that Favorites has been messed with in Office 2003. I figured out

how
to add my Favorites folder to My Places but when I follow your

instructions
and try to Add to Favorites from the Web Tool Bar in Word (trying to add a
Word document to my Favorites list), it will only let me save it as a url,
which obviously does not work. I cannot get a Word file to save to my
Favorites.

How about an Office 2003 update that gives us Favorites back like it used

to
be?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can still put shortcuts to anything you like in your Favorites

folder
and put the Favorites folder on your Places bar. The only thing that is
missing is the "Add to Favorites" button in the dialog.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Joe McGuire" wrote in message
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If you are referring to setting some Word files/folders as favorites

in
Word
2003, it appears that the powers-that-be in Redmond have decided we

don't
need that any more. We are supposed to enjoy the My Places thingie.

My
Places (actually, they aren't mine: they would be yours, but we are

stuck
with Microsoft lingo) is actually fine for a few bookmarks,

particularly
if
they don't change too much. But no more Word favorites. I am sure
somebody
out in Redmond could explain why we don't need something we have

relied on
for a long time, if you could actually ask somebody. Maybe that's why

the
Crabby Office lady is so crabby these days.

I have worked around this by creating a "Place" for Word bookmarks.

Then
using Windows Explorer I find the files/folders I want to bookmark and
mark
them thusly in Win Explorer. It's pretty klutzy, but until somebody

shows
me a better way, it is the only way I can think of to still use Word
bookmarks..


"Joel" wrote in message
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I need the Favorites icon that appears in MS Word 97 that no longer
appear
in
MS Word 2003. I need it for MS Word 2003