Lengthen Your Recently Used Files List in Word and Excel

November 10th, 2005

By default, Word and Excel list the last four files you opened at the bottom of the File menu. You can increase the number of files on this list to nine by changing a program setting.

Here’s how:

  1. Select Tools | Options.
  2. Click the General tab.
  3. Change the number in the Recently used file list to 9 entries.
  4. Click OK.

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