Sending Web Links to Word & SharePoint Documents   Sending colleagues links to web-based documents makes your e-mails smaller, and is an ideal way to work with document management systems like Microsoft SharePoint. Depending on how your computer is set up, you may find when you open a Microsoft Word document from the Web that it opens in Word; you can't view the direct hyperlink to the document. Here's how to set up your computer to open Word documents from within Internet Explorer. Doing so allows you to view a Word document's Web address so you can copy and paste it into an e-mail message as a link. Open Windows Explorer (right-click Start button, choose Explore). On the menus at the top of the window, select Tools > Folder Options... and select the File Types tab. Scroll down the alphabetical listing to "DOC" and click once to highlight the line for Microsoft Word Document. Click the Advanced button. At the bottom of the Edit File Type window, check the Open in same window box. Click OK and then Close. You should now be able to open Word documents from the Web in Internet Explorer and find direct hyperlinks in the Address bar. Back to Tip of the Month

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