Navigating to files in Word

[jmt356]

Is there a shortcut in Word's open dialogue box to navigate to a higher folder or to go back to a previous folder or do users have to click the mouse to press the back and up buttons?

[HansV]

Go to the previous folder: Alt+1.
Up one level: Alt+2.

[ChrisGreaves]

Is there a shortcut in Word's open dialogue box

JMT: happy Anniversary (soon!) and THANK YOU for asking this question.

Hans: Thanks for the answer;

The two of you have jointly improved my skills this day.

[HansV]

More generaslly, Alt+n where n = 1, 2, 3, ..., activates the n-th button in the toolbar at the top of the Open and Save As dialogs.
Alt+0 activates the list of files/folders.

[jmt356]

Thanks Hans. Alt+n is going to save me a lot of time. I've been pressing Shift + Tab twice. Also, what do you mean by "n-"? Number of thumb?

Thanks Chris. Which anniversary?

[HansV]

I meant Alt+1 activates the first button, Alt+2 activates the second button, Alt+3 activates the third button etc.

(BTW this was tested in Word 2003 on Windows XP. In Word 2007 on Windows 7, none of these keyboard shortcuts work)

[jmt356]

Does Word 2007 have other shortcuts to these buttons or no shortcuts at all?

[HansV]

I think it's more Windows 7 than Word 2007 but I'm not 100% certain. In my Word 2007 on Windows 7, Backspace is the shortcut for "one level up". and that seems to be it.

[StuartR]

These short cuts don't seem to work on Word 2007 or Word 2010 on Vista.

[HansV]

OK, so they're probably specific to Word (or Office) 2003.

[jmt356]

Hopefully I'll never be forced to upgrade ... I love my shortcuts.

[tedshemyers]

Try some of these web sites:

Function Shortcuts in 2007

Microsoft List of keyboard shortcuts for Office

The PaperClip help for Office

Hope these help.

[ChrisGreaves]

Hopefully I'll never be forced to upgrade ... I love my shortcuts.

I appreciate your sentiments, but you are doomed.
An example:
My new netbook comes with Win7; Outlook 2000 won't work, just can't run, under Win7 Home premium, so there is a forced upgrade to Office 2002; then (I found) there's a glitch there, so I'm now at Office 2003 with it's "Some program is trying to emit an email .." message and the 5-second delay and the mandatory human intervention ("Click"), and for why? Just because I used the automation features that Microsoft supplys

I know about ClickYes and similar applications, but the main bugaboo was having to upgrade from Outlook 2000 because it was written for a different architecture that was not supported under Win7.
I know about the Win7 version that supports XP compatibility, but again, I'm being forced into purchasing decisions based on how the software developer thinks I should be acting.

The old 16-bit applications that have worked so well for 25 years must be discarded because we don't support those anymore ...

It seems a shame to jettison something that works. e.g. SkyGlobe.

Please see also Browse for file by keyboard

[jmt356]

Is there a Word 2003 shortcut to activate the buttons on the left of the open dialogue (My Documents, My Recent Documents, Desktop. etc.)?