There have been a number of times when working with multiple files that I’ve done things in one document when I thought I was in a different one. Ugh! I hate that. Here’s an easy way for you to benefit from my mistakes and add the file name (including the full path of where it is saved) right to your toolbar.

Let’s do some customizing

The nice thing is this works in Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The not quite as nice thing is that you’ll need to set this up for each application separately.

1. Right-click anywhere on any toolbar to display a context menu for the toolbars.

2. Choose Customize…
( You can also use the menu option: Tools » Customize… )

3. Click on the Commands tab.

4. In the Categories list (on the left hand side), select Web.

5. Drag the Address command (the first one in the command list) to wherever you’d like your file’s address to be (on your toolbars)

6. Click on Close.

Now you should have something like this that displays the full path of where your document is stored.

NOTE: This is also a good way to get the UNC path to use when linking to shared network folders.

Watch this to see how it works

What do you think of this one? Drop me a note and let me know.

Have a great weekend!
Mike

I think a lot of people probably know that trick but did you know
that it can do other things too?

Super Fast Zooming

In Microsoft Office documents, you can quickly change the zoom level by holding the CTRL key while you scroll the mouse wheel. This is faster than using the menus, and let’s you size it visually rather than having to blindly guess what zoom % will look they way you want it.

Warp Speed Scrolling

In many places, including Office documents and web pages, clicking the scroll wheel once will change your cursor to a double-sided arrow like the one shown below. Once you see this, you can simply move your mouse up and down for speed scrolling.

In large spreadsheets, you can also use this trick to move left and right, in addition to up and down.

Forward/Backward Web Browsing

On the web you can use SHIFT + Scroll as an alternative to your browsers Forward and Backward buttons.

How do you use your scroll wheel? Drop me a note and let me know.

Have a great holiday weekend!
Mike

There have been a number of times when working with multiple files that I’ve done things in one document when I thought I was in a different one. Ugh! I hate that. Here’s an easy way for you to benefit from my mistakes and add the file name (including the full path of where it is saved) right to your toolbar.

Let’s do some customizing

The nice thing is this works in Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The not quite as nice thing is that you’ll need to set this up for each application separately.

1. Right-click anywhere on any toolbar to display a context menu for the toolbars.

2. Choose Customize…
( You can also use the menu option: Tools » Customize… )

3. Click on the Commands tab.

4. In the Categories list (on the left hand side), select Web.

5. Drag the Address command (the first one in the command list) to wherever you’d like your file’s address to be (on your toolbars)

6. Click on Close.

Now you should have something like this that displays the full path of where your document is stored.

NOTE: This is also a good way to get the UNC path to use when linking to shared network folders.

Watch this to see how it works

What do you think of this one? Drop me a note and let me know.

Have a great weekend!
Mike