shortcuts to files in folders

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Many of my files are related to different folders. Is there a way
(shortcut?)for me to access a particular file from more than one
folder ? The problem with putting copies in more than one folder is
that if I work on a document, the changes are included in only one of
the folders, so I risk ending up with many versions of the same file.

I seem to recall that in Wordperfect one could put shortcuts in
folders. The shortcuts brought you to a single copy of the document.

I can't find the way to do that with Word.

André
 
If you have WIndows 2000 or above, the documents list in your Start menu is a
list of shortcuts to the documents you worked on recently.
Genine
 
Right-click on the filename in any Explorer window (including Word's File
Open dialog) and choose Create Shortcut. Then drag the shortcut to another
folder, or cut and paste it.

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Genine said:
If you have WIndows 2000 or above, the documents list in your Start menu is a
list of shortcuts to the documents you worked on recently.
Genine
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Thank you, Genine, for your response.

My concern is about documents I have not been working on recently and
can be retrieved only from folders in "My documents". What I am
looking for really is a way to do a multiple-listing of a single
document whereby there is only one copy of that document located in a
particular folder, but with a link to it in a number of other folders.

André
 
Thank you. By the way,I realized after posting my query that it was
an OS issue, not a word processing one! Unfortunately, you can't
withdraw a post!

André
 
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