no my places bar?

[AB]

I downloaded the trial of home and student Office 2007 and am trying to
learn Word 2007. When saving or opening, I am used to having an area letting
me choose a favorite location to save or open in. You know, click file >
save as> click "favorites" or network locations,etc, and then the favorite
location to save in.

I see references to "my places" on lots of help sites and that sounds like
what I need. But I cannot find any "my places" bar on the open or save
dialog. All I get is a tree where I have to manually locate the folder I
want to use. I have subdivided my documents into many subfolders and the
word folder is subdivided into about 4 topics. That's a lot of searching
each time.

Why don't I have a my places bar, how can I get it (if at all)?

I'm trying to smile through this huge change after almost 20 years of
knowing Word's interface

Thanks

 

[Gordon]

I downloaded the trial of home and student Office 2007 and am trying to
learn Word 2007. When saving or opening, I am used to having an area
letting
me choose a favorite location to save or open in. You know, click file >
save as> click "favorites" or network locations,etc, and then the favorite
location to save in.

I see references to "my places" on lots of help sites and that sounds like
what I need. But I cannot find any "my places" bar on the open or save
dialog. All I get is a tree where I have to manually locate the folder I
want to use. I have subdivided my documents into many subfolders and the
word folder is subdivided into about 4 topics. That's a lot of searching
each time.

Why don't I have a my places bar, how can I get it (if at all)?

I'm trying to smile through this huge change after almost 20 years of
knowing Word's interface

Thanks

What version of Windows?