Using the Connect to Office Tool to Create Shortcuts

Users should be informed that the Connect to Office tool available on the Library tab is the easiest way to create shortcuts that will be available from Office 2010 applications via the Save As interface.

Follow these steps to use the Connect to Office feature in a SharePoint document library:

  1. Visit a SharePoint document library using a computer with Office 2010 installed and an account with at least read permissions to the library.
  2. Click the Connect to Office button from the Library tab, and the select Add to SharePoint sites. A message appears that states β€œIn order to connect libraries in this site to Microsoft Office, your machine must register the user profile service application used by this site....” Click Yes; the SharePoint folder will be created under Favorites for the user, and the shortcut will be added.

    Note

    If Office 2007 or an earlier version of Office is installed, the Connect to Office button will be inactive.

  3. Next, click the Connect to Office button again, but this time click Manage SharePoint Sites, and the MyQuickLinks page will display, showing the links available, as shown in Figure 25.5. Note that additional tools are available, including Add Link, Edit Link, Delete, and Create Tag from Link.

    Figure 25.5. The MyQuickLinks page in Word 2010.

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  4. Verify that the new link appears in Word 2010 by opening Word 2010, and click the Save As button from the File tab.
  5. Click SharePoint Sites from the Favorites section in the left pane, and the new SharePoint shortcut will appear. Double-click the new shortcut added in step 2, and the Save As window will now display the document library and existing contents, as shown in Figure 25.6.

    Figure 25.6. Accessing the SharePoint Sites folder in the Save As window in Word 2010.

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  6. Enter a valid filename and click Save.

Note

During testing, links added by using the Add Link tool on the MyQuickLinks page did not show up reliably in the SharePoint Sites folder. Let end users know that they can manually add these links by accessing the SharePoint Sites folder on their computer by following the steps in the section titled β€œManually Add a Shortcut to the SharePoint Sites Folder.”

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