Personal Menu – How to Access

The Personal Menu is where you can store shortcuts to many of your commonly used programs. This menu is actually stored on your personal F: drive and will follow you to every computer on campus.

To access your Personal Menu:

1. Left-click the button.
2. Left-click All Programs.
3. Left-click Personal Menu. This will launch your Personal Menu Window, where you can double-click any available program icon to launch that program.

Personal Menu – Adding Program Shortcuts

1. Launch the Personal Menu window following steps 1 – 3 above.
2. Navigate to the program that you would like to create a shortcut for in your Personal Menu. (The example to the right shows a typical navigation through the SOU Campus Information System menu to the Excel program).
3. To add the shortcut to your Personal Menu, Right Click, hold, and drag the icon to the white area of your Personal Menu window. You should see a ghosted image of the program icon on your screen.
4. Let go of the right mouse button and a Menu will appear giving you the options to Copy, Move, or Cancel the shortcut.
5. Left-click Copy Here and the program shortcut will be added to your Personal Menu.