Microsoft Office has many features that you are able to customize to users particular needs. A particular one worth mentioning is the My Places Bar of the Open dialog box which can be customized to specific network drives, local drives or folders. In a previous tip (entitled Add a Shortcut to the My Places Bar in Office 2007) you learned how to add a new shortcut to the My Places Bar. If at some point, you need to remove a shortcut, you can do so using these steps.

To remove a shortcut from the My Places Bar in Word 2007:

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button and click Save As.
2. On the My Places Bar, right-click the appropriate shortcut.
3. Click Remove from the shortcut menu.

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