Crabby's Monday tip: Rejuvenate your recent file list

You can use the list of recent documents to display the last few files you opened in that program, and you can also customize how many files show up there and which files you want there all the time. In fact, there are a few things you can do in that recent files area:

• Change the number of files that appear in the list of recently used files.
• Keep a file on the Recent Documents list.
• Clear the list of recently used files.

And now I'll just get right to it and point you to the places that will tell you how. (Now try and tell me this isn't a great tip!)

Office 2010: You'll start at the File tab.

Office 2007: You'll start at the Office Button.

And oh, I wrote about the pushpin feature (a favorite of mine) here, last July. 

Now go: find and mark your favorites and then move on with your day.

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you." — Walt Whitman

— Crabby