Learn how the search box works in Excel’s file open dialog to quickly find your files. Tips for faster and smarter navigation ...

We all know that it can be a pain finding a specific file you want to open in a sea of other files in Windows default open file or file upload dialogs, especially if it's mixed in with several other ...

Ralph Redan asked the Windows forum how to provide easy access to his favorite folders in File Open and Save As dialog boxes. All File Open and Save As dialog boxes have a list of favorite locations, ...

I’ve been doing this quite a bit lately, and didn’t even realize it was a new thing until I did it in front of a friend the other day, and she said, “Woah! I didn’t know you could do that!” So, ...

A few simple tweaks let you add the location of your choice to Open and Save dialog boxes in Vista and XP. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' ...

Ever since I uninstalled Windows ME (upgrade from 98, then downgraded again) The sort order in the open file dialog has changed from sorting filenames in ascending view to sorting by date in ...

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?<BR><BR>I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

If you cannot open the Excel file from its location, simply open any Excel file and click the File tab. Then, go to Open > Browse and select the file giving error ...

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 apps will mistakenly display an "How do you want to open this file?" dialog box when attempting to right-click on the program's icon and perform a registered ...

Do you know how many file types Chrome, Firefox, Safari et al can handle? It’s probably more than you think, and if you need to quickly view a file—be it a PDF, MP3 or photo—then you can use your Web ...