Dave

You need to first open microsoft power point and make some buttons using the bit on the bottom left

Autoshapes open the list up and create a button

Then right click it and click on the hyper link and select edit hyperlink

Click on where it says other file and find the one that you want

This will now be a MACRO to that file and will open it for you

Right click on the button and CUT

paste it into any MICROSOFT documnet word etc and it will open the file you said

So you could have a word document with loads of buttons to your fave common files or pics etc

Nige