Is there a way to avoid the Animation window drop-down menu with a selected Animator?

I have a lot of animation clips to update with a single animator controller. I open the prefab and have the animator's gameobject selected. In order to see the prefab enact an animation, I need to go through the dozens and dozens of animation clips before I can get to the one I'm looking to modify. Selecting an animation clip directly in the project folder resets the selected animator gameobject, so I can't see any changes without having to use the drop-down menu again. I tried to create an editor window to set the animator and animation clip values, but I found no way to send information to the open Animation window.

Is there a better way to navigate animation clips with a selected gameobject?