Creating Shortcuts to SharePoint 2010

New users will be very happy if they find the process of saving documents to SharePoint easy and intuitive. And generally, users don’t like always having to open a browser, find their favorite to get to SharePoint, navigate to the site they’re using, find the document library, and then have to upload a document after saving it locally.

There are several ways to facilitate the process of saving documents to SharePoint by creating favorites and shortcuts. This first set of steps that follows shows how to create a shortcut by using the Connect to Office button in a document library, and the section that follows that describes how to manually create the shortcut from Windows Explorer.

Another method of creating shortcuts, which can be used on computers not using Office 2010, is to simply create a shortcut under Network Places, which is useful to know about if the SharePoint Sites folder isn’t available for certain users.