Office Word 2003 "Save As"

But you might be able to alter the list of 'My places' - the column of icons Bree has shown on the left-hand side of his left-hand diagram. Doing so would provide an alternative for the shortcuts you cannot use. And here is an example taken from Diane's guidance [see below] - those Kid's files, Data, Fawcette, ... entries are all custom destinations acting as shortcuts.

There used to be a common utility that could change the items in the My places list [PowerToys - TweakUI] and there was a fairly straightforward Registry edit that accomplished it as well. I have not used either of these for a decade.

There was some discussion about updated PowerToys in Announcing first preview and code release of PowerToys for Windows 10 - TenForums

There is a current utility called TweakUI but I cannot tell from its webpage whether or not it has this capability - WinTools.Net TweakUI

I have been looking through my old notes about 'My places' for old Office versions.
- I found one note that both IE and Office used the term 'My places' for similar things but the Registry changes needed to make them work were entirely different - the only common factor was the name.
- According to Diane Poremsky, Office 2003 did not even need the Registry edit - Office 2003 could set up 'My places' directly within its SaveAs dialog - Customizing the Office XP and Office 2003 Places Bar
- I think, therefore, that Diane's is the solution you have been searching for.

Denis

So, 'my places' is indeed the solution to the dilemma identified in this thread - it's a workaround to the inability to display shortcuts [and much neater].

[I imagine that I added the link to Diane's article while you were writing your post so you wouldn't have seen it in time]

Denis

I'd be curious to know if the Compatibility Pack that used to be offered by Microsoft and used to make Office 2000, 2002/XP and 2003 able to be compatible with the new file formats of 2007 and later would anything along the line of this discussion.