Quick Access to Your Documents

If you’re like me, there are documents you access on your computer quite often. Wouldn’t it be nice to access these documents quickly without having to search through your folders to get to them? Well you can!

The Push-Pin feature works in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This feature let’s you keep your documents readily available and avoid the extra steps of searching for them when you need them.

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Of course you already know about the MS Office feature that lists your most recently accessed documents. When you click on the Office button at the top left of your screen you should see a list of documents you recently opened. Next to each document is a Push-Pin.

By simply clicking on the Push-Pin next to the documents you want readily available, that document will always appear in this list until you click the Push-Pin again to disable it.  (The grey sideways Push-Pins are disabled and those document will eventually go away.  The green Push-Pin is an active document that will stay in this menu until you click it to disable it.)

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Another option you have for accessing documents you’ve recently open is to change the number of recent documents that appears in this list. You can either increase or decrease the number.

Click on the Office button in the upper left corner of your screen and select Word Options at the bottom of the menu.  In the Word Options dialogue box selectAdvanced in the left column and then scroll through the list of options to the Display section. The first item in the display section allows you to increase or decrease the number of Recent Documents that will be shown in your menu list when you select the Office button.