Tips and Tricks: Connect to SharePoint Library through Menu Pinning

I love teaching! I learn something everyday through questions asked in the workshops. One of the participants today in the Beginning SharePoint 2007 – The Basics workshop said that he had to update ten documents everyday, each in a different library. He dove down into the first library, connected to the document, did the update and then went on to find the next document. There had to be a better way…

Most people when asked would say “Move the documents to a single library and use the Outlook integration to access the documents”. Yeah, but that’s not really where the documents live! He wants them in the location where they belong. Next solution, please….

The simple solution is the one that gets used, right? How about pinning the ‘offending’ documents to the Open menu in Excel and having direct access to them through the menu! Now all he has to do is open Excel and there they are, first thing available on the Open list. Whoo-aaah! What could be easier?

Like I said, I love teaching. It makes me think everyday.