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Pin Your Favorite Recent Documents in Word 2007

The Office button holds a list of the 17 most Recent Documents you had open. If some of those are files that you open regularly, you can pin them to the menu so they won’t be shifted off the list as you open more files. To the right of each file name there is a little push pin image. Click it to pin a file to the menu (it will change color), click again to remove.

Note that the pinned files will move around in the list, but will stay in the top 9 of the list.

This will work in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

One More Thing on the Recent Documents List

You can increase the number of files that appear in the Recent Documents list.

1. Click the Office Button, then Word Options.
2. Click Advanced in the left-hand pane, then scroll down to Display.
3. Under Display, look for Show this number of recent documents and change the number to the right of it.
4. OK to finish.

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