Monday, April 30, 2018

Increase the Number of Recent Documents MS Excel 2010

You can make it easier to find the workbooks you use most often by increasing the number of files that Excel displays on its Recent list. When you click the File tab and then click Recent, Excel displays a list of the workbooks that you have used most recently, and clicking an item in the list opens that workbook. The Recent list is therefore a quick way to open a file, but only if the workbook you want appears in that list. 
To improve the chances that a workbook appears in the Recent list, you can increase the number of files that Excel displays. The default is 22, but you can specify a number as high as 50. If you run your PC at a relatively low resolution, such as 1024 x 768, Excel only has space to display the first few recent documents, and it adds a scroll bar to the list so you can navigate the rest. However, having to scroll to a recent document just slows you down, so you can reduce the number of recent documents to about 15, or whatever number prevents the scroll bar from appearing.

Excel Menu

1. Click the File tab.

2 Click Options.

The Excel Options dialogbox appears.

1. Click Advanced.
2. Use the Show  This Number of Recent Documents spin box tospecify the number of recent workbooks you want to display.

3. Click OK.The next time you click the File tab and then click Recent, you see the number of recent
workbooks that you specified.

More Options! 

Excel 2010 gives you a few options for manipulating the list of recent documents. For example, if a workbook that you use only rarely appears on the list, you should remove it to make space for a file that you use often. Right-click the workbook and then click Remove From List. If you want a particular workbook to always appear on the list, click the pin icon to the right of the file.

Did You Know? 

If you are running Excel 2010 on Windows 7, you can take advantage of jump lists to open recent Excel workbooks. Pin the Excel icon to the taskbar as described in Chapter 1. You can then right-click the icon to access the recent workbooks. You can also pin items to this list by clicking the pin icon or by dragging and dropping a workbook onto the Excel icon.

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