How to copy a file path in any app on Windows
Windows only gives you "Copy as path" inside File Explorer (Ctrl Shift C). Everywhere else - your CAD software, PDF markup tool, Office, your IDE - you're stuck retyping paths or digging through folders. AnyPath fixes that with one hotkey that works in 50+ apps: press Ctrl Alt C in the app you're already looking at, and the full path of the active file is on your clipboard, quoted and ready to paste. Ctrl Alt X copies the SharePoint/OneDrive cloud link instead.
Free to try · Requires Windows 11 · Also available for Mac (macOS 13 or later)
How to copy the file path in Bluebeam Revu
Bluebeam has no built-in copy-path command - the usual workaround is closing in on the file through Explorer or reading Document Properties. With AnyPath: open your PDF in Revu, press Ctrl Alt C, and the full path of the active tab is on your clipboard - even with multiple documents open, even with a tab popped out into its own window. Network (UNC) paths come through as network paths, so the path you paste into an RFI or transmittal actually resolves for the recipient.
How to copy the file path in AutoCAD and Civil 3D
AutoCAD shows the drawing name, not the path - and hovering the title bar only helps if the window is maximized. With AnyPath: press Ctrl Alt C with your drawing active and the full .dwg path is copied, quoted for command-line and script use. Works identically in Civil 3D; AnyPath supports AutoCAD LT too.
How to copy the file path in Revit
Revit buries the model location in Manage → Project Information, and workshared models make it worse. AnyPath reads the active model: press Ctrl Alt C and the full .rvt path of the project you are actually in is copied - local files resolved correctly, and BIM 360/ACC cloud-cache paths are never returned by mistake.
How to copy the file path in SolidWorks
Assemblies reference hundreds of part files, and "where is this part actually saved?" means File → Properties every time. With AnyPath: press Ctrl Alt C with the part, assembly, or drawing active and its full path is copied - ready for PDM notes, ECOs, or an email to the shop floor.
How to copy the file path in MicroStation
AnyPath supports MicroStation CONNECT and V8i: press Ctrl Alt C with your DGN active and the full design-file path is copied, straight from MicroStation itself.
How to copy the file path in Navisworks
AnyPath supports Navisworks: Ctrl Alt C copies the full path of the open NWD/NWF model - handy for coordination-meeting minutes that need to point at the exact federated model version.
How to copy the file path in Adobe Acrobat
Acrobat's Document Properties shows the location but won't give you a copyable full path in one step. With AnyPath: press Ctrl Alt C with the PDF open and it's copied instantly. Also works in Foxit, PDF-XChange, Nitro PDF, and SumatraPDF.
How to copy the file path in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Office technically can show the path (File → Info), but it's four clicks and not always copyable. With AnyPath: Ctrl Alt C in the document copies the full path; Ctrl Alt X copies the SharePoint/OneDrive link for the same file - no browser, no digging through menus. Works in Visio, Project, OneNote, Access, and Publisher too.
How to copy the file path in ArcGIS Pro
AnyPath supports ArcGIS Pro: Ctrl Alt C copies the full .aprx project path - useful for team wikis and data-management docs that need to reference the exact project file. QGIS is supported too.
How to copy the file path in VS Code
VS Code has Copy Path in the context menu - but it needs the mouse and the Explorer sidebar. AnyPath's Ctrl Alt C works from wherever your cursor is, in VS Code and VSCodium, plus Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Sublime Text, and Notepad++.
How to copy the current directory in Windows Terminal
Press Ctrl Alt C in a Windows Terminal or cmd session and the shell's current working directory is copied - read from the shell process itself, not parsed from the prompt text. And if the process directory has drifted from what the prompt shows (which can happen in PowerShell), AnyPath tells you instead of copying the wrong folder.
How to copy a SharePoint or OneDrive link for a local file
The usual way: open the browser, find the file in SharePoint, click through the menus, copy the link. AnyPath's Ctrl Alt X (Beta) does it from the file you already have open: it builds the cloud link locally from your sync client's own configuration - no browser round-trip, and nothing leaves your machine to do it. The link opens for anyone who already has access to the file. Works for any synced file in any supported app: the Word doc you're editing, the PDF in Bluebeam, the folder in Explorer.
Drag the actual file into any email or upload
Sometimes the recipient doesn't need the path - they need the file. After any copy, AnyPath shows a small draggable chip at your cursor: the Smart Chip. Drag it straight into an Outlook or Teams message to attach the file, or into a browser upload box to upload it - no hunting through folders first. The file that gets sent is the file as saved on disk.
Every supported app
AnyPath works in 50+ apps on Windows, plus Open and Save dialogs in any of them. Some supported apps are marked Beta in the app while we finish verifying them.
Files and browsers
File managers and compare
Office and documents
Business and data
PDF and reading
Developer
Design and creative
Media
CAD, BIM, 3D and GIS
FAQ
- Doesn't Windows already do this?
- Only in File Explorer (Ctrl+Shift+C) - one app. AnyPath brings one-key copy to 50+ apps, adds the SharePoint/OneDrive cloud link, and includes the drag-to-attach Smart Chip.
- Does it guess?
- No. If AnyPath can't identify the active file with certainty, it tells you - it never pastes a wrong path.
- Is it free?
- The everyday essentials (File Explorer, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, every major browser, plus the Smart Chip in these apps) are free forever. Professional apps are Premium - the annual plan includes a 7-day free trial, so you can try everything free for 7 days.
- Does anything leave my machine?
- No. AnyPath reads the window you're looking at, only when you press the shortcut, and puts text on your clipboard. Your files, file names, and paths are never sent anywhere - even cloud links are built locally on your device.
- Which Windows? What about Mac?
- Windows 11. AnyPath for Mac is available today too - it requires macOS 13 or later and you can download it from the homepage.
Free to try · Requires Windows 11