Quick Access Pins in OneDrive/File Explorer

Organize/Update your Quick Access Pins in OneDrive/File Explorer

In the File Explorer view, you can ‘pin’ frequently used folders/files to the Quick Access menu to save time finding them in the future. You can also unpin items that you no longer use frequently. If your department migrated to using SharePoint, you may want to unpin existing folders/files to network drives and add new pins to shortcuts to folders in your department SharePoint site. If you are unsure of where your folder/file is, follow these steps, File Explorer: Understanding Folder Heirarchy, to learn how ‘breadcrumbs’ show you where you are in your computer.

Pin a folder/file to Quick Access

Open File Explorer (click on the yellow folder on your computer taskbar at the bottom of your screen).

Select OneDrive from the left side of the screen. Look for the blue cloud icon followed by your name or group and interdent.com.

Find the folder you want to add to Quick Access and right-click on it. Select Pin to Quick access from the list of options.

The folder/shortcut (Capitol Dental – Document) is now ‘pinned’ to the Quick Access menu as shown by the thumbtack pins below.

Remove a pinned folder/file/shortcut from Quick Access

Find the pinned folder/file/shortcut on the Quick Access menu. Right-click on it and select Unpin from Quick Access from the list of options.

The item has been removed from the Quick Access menu. Unpinning the item does not delete it. It merely removes it from the Quick Access menu.