Quickly manage and open multiple documents with a group in Word

Normally you will bookmark some web pages in the Favorite of IE or bookmarks of Firefox browser, so that you can visit those links without remembering their addresses. In Microsoft Word, we may also open some documents repeatedly. However, there is no similar favorite utility in Word for us to manage and open documents with a group. Kutools for Word's Favorite utility is designed to for managing and opening documents with a group in Word.

Add documents to a favorite group

Manage documents in groups

Open a group of documents with one click

Click Kutools > Favorites. See screenshot:

Add documents to a favorite group

Kutools for Word supports multiple methods on adding documents to a group.

If you want to add the current document to a group, please do as below:

1. Click Kutools > Favorites > Add Document to Group. See screenshot:

2. In the Add Documents to Group dialog, choose an existed group or create a new group to place the document, then click Add button to save the document to a group.

Now, you can see all documents of the group list in the group sub menu.

If you want to add current document or multiple documents to an existed group, you can do as below:

Click Kutools > Favorites, choose the group name you want to add documents to, then in the sub menu, choose Add to this Group, or Add All to this Group or Add Files to this Group feature as you need.

Add to this to Group: Add the current document to this group.

Add All to This Group: Add all opened documents to this group. Note: If the document has exsited in the group already, a dialog pops out to remind you. And it only can add one document to this group if the opened documents are opened by one click.

Add Files to this Group: Applying this feature, it displays a Browse dialog for you to choose files from a folder, and all selected files are added to this group.

Manage documents in groups

If you want to manage and organize the documents in groups, such as rename, remove, move, you can do as below:

Click Kutools > Favorites > Organize Document Group, then in the Organize Document Group dialog, mange the groups and documents by right click menu or right pane buttons.

Open a group of documents with one click

If you have saved documents to a group, then you can quickly open all documents within the group as follows:

1. Open the Word application, then click Kutools > Favorites > click on the group name that you want to open the whole group or click Open this Group in the sub menu of the group. You will see all documents within the group have been opened in your Word. See screenshot:

Related Function

• Organize Document Group: Managing documents by using group in Word