Lengthen Your List of Recently Used Documents

Word 2002 displays a list of the last four documents you opened in the New Document task pane. It's so easy to open your documents this way, you may find that showing the most recent four is just not enough. What if you want to see a document that's fifth or farther down in the list? You can always click the More documents link to see a longer list of recently used documents. But, if you use this feature a lot, it makes sense to show more documents in the list. You can specify a number as high as nine.


To increase the number of documents displayed on the recently used documents list:

1.            On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.

2.            In the Recently used file list box, specify the number of recently used files that you want to appear in the New Document task pane.

Click OK.