Creating Favorites in Word

By Dave Soto

©2001

 

Creating a Favorite in Word is much like creating a Favorite or Bookmark on the web.  It may seem strange at first, but you will soon realize how easy it is to take the drudgery out of finding that file or folder you knew you saved somewhere, but now can’t find. This online tutorial will show you how to use this valuable feature.

  1. This tutorial will show you how to create a Favorite Folder instead of a document.

  2. With Word open, Click File/Open and the familiar Open File dialog box appears as shown in Figure 1.

 

Figure 1

 

  1. Before you can create a Favorite, you must select a Folder as shown in Figure 1, number 1. I have selected the folder "include code".
  2. Next, you will click Tools as shown in Figure 1, number 2.
  3. A small drop down menu will appear as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2

  1. Now you will click "Add to Favorites", as shown in Figure 2.

  2. That's all there is to it. You have just created a Favorite which you can now use to save yourself time looking for that elusive folder.

  3. If you look below at Figure 3, you will see that same Open dialog box, but now I have clicked on the Favorites link on the left and on the right you can see the new Favorite "include code".

Figure 3