◦ You can use any toolbar, not just a vertical toolbar, for this purpose: Just drag the folder's icon from Windows Explorer onto the toolbar.
See " How to Create a Vertical Toolbar with Text Buttons to Access Your Favorite Folders, Templates and Files," a small PDF file on my site.
Any Windows shortcuts to often-used folders that you create in that new subfolder will show up in the Favorites menu in the File, Open and the Insert, File dialogs. Add a new subfolder directly under the standard Favorites folderin Windows and name it " WordPerfect".
◦ See also the vertical toolbar tip below. For the artistically challenged, here are some tips to make the button unique.) Click OK until you return to the main screen. (Or you can simply edit the existing icon to add something or some color to make it unique. Then use the tools to create your own custom icon. ◦ You can customize the button's icon: In the Toolbar Editor, click on the Image Edit button, then click Clear to remove the default image. Click OK until you return to the main screen. Give the icon a Button Text name of your choice,and a Quick tip name of your choice. Then right-click on the button an choose Customize. The Toolbar Editor appears (you can drag it to reposition it). ◦ You can customize the folder or file name and the Quick tip (the label that appears when you hover over the toolbar button): Right-click on the toolbar and choose Edit. Drag and drop the folder or file name from Windows onto the WordPerfect toolbar. Add a specific folder or file to any visible toolbar: Open Windows Explorer, or use (My) Computer.Tip: Rename the shortcut with a leading "!" mark and it should appear at the top of the list of files when the Name column is chosen for sorting. When you open the Open File dialog the shortcut should appear in the list of folders and files just double click on it to open the folder that it points to. Then drag the folder name to the WordPerfect default folder (see first tip above), and choose "Create Shortcut Here". In a similar way to adding shortcuts to your Windows desktop, you can simply open File Explorer (or Windows Explorer or My Computer in some versions) and right-click on the desired folder. Add a new folder to the Open File dialog list with a standard Windows shortcut.◦ Related QuickFinder Searcher tip: In newer Windows versions you can choose to pin QuickFinder Searcher on the Windows taskbar to make it faster/easier to use - even if WordPerfect is not open. Moreover it retains the last folder as the "default" - even across Windows sessions - until you choose another folder.
Also, in QuickFinder Searcher the setting "Change Default Folder" is independent of the same-named setting in WordPerfect's File, Open dialog. This utility can usually be found in the Windows menu (Start, All Programs, WordPerfect Office X., Utilities). ◦ This tip also applies to the the separate QuickFinder Searcher. ◦ For the next WordPerfect session, the first folder that will be opened is the one set in Tools, Settings, Files, "Default document folder". Then on the Open File dialog's menu click Edit and enable (i.e., tick) the option "Change Default Folder".