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Asked: 2026-05-26T11:19:10+00:00

In Excel 2003 there used to be a command that I added to my

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In Excel 2003 there used to be a command that I added to my toolbar that was called Address (if I remember correctly) and it would show the fully-qualified network path to the file I had open. For example: \\ads\IT-DEPT-DFS\data\Users\someguy\somefile.xls

This made it easy to grab this string and pop it in an email when you wanted to share the file with a coworker. I don’t see this option in Excel 2010 but find myself needing to send/receive Excel files a lot now. Coworkers will give vague references to “it is on the share drive” or email the file as an attachment (ugh!).

Anyone know if something comparable exists in Excel 2010?

UPDATE: I found this mapping of Excel 2003 to 2007 commands. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/redir/AM010186429.aspx?CTT=5&origin=HA010086048

Web>Address is what I was using – looks like that became “Document Location” in 2007. But they removed/obfuscated this again in 2010. I am trying to find a mapping like this for 2007 to 2010.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Answer to my own question. The only way I have found that works consistently and instantaneously is to:

    1) Create a link in my “Favorites” to the directory I use

    2) Update the properties on that favorite to be an absolute path (\\ads\IT-DEPT-DFS\Data\MAILROOM)

    3) When saving a new file, I navigate to that directory only via the Favorites directory created above (or you can use any Shortcut with an absolute path)

    4) After saving, go to the File tab and the full path can be copied from the top of the Info (default) section

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