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Microsoft Word 2002 (XP) & 2003
Easy Access to Frequently Used Documents

Description

The Work menu is a great feature that you can use to keep an easily accessible list of your most frequently used Microsoft Word documents.

In this lesson you will learn how to display the Work menu, how to add documents to the menu, and how to open documents from the menu. Lastly, you will learn how to remove documents from the menu.

Display the Work Menu

Menu Path
- Click on the Tools menu
- Click the Customize command
Customize Dialog Box
- Click the Commands tab
- Single click to select the Built-in Menus category
- Single click to select the Work command
- Depress your left mouse button and drag the Work command to anywhere on the menu bar
- Click the Close button to exit the Customize dialog box

Customize Dialog Box

Add the Current Document to the Work Menu

Menu Path
- Click on the Work menu
- Click the Add to Work Menu command
  - The currently displayed document will be added to the bottom on the Work menu

Open a Document from the Work Menu

Menu Path
- Click on the Work menu
- Click the name of the document you want to open
  - HINT: if the document names are not displayed, either click the double arrows at the end of the menu or wait a few seconds until the full Work menu is displayed

Work Menu with List of Frequently Used Documents

Remove a Document from the Work Menu

On your keyboard, depress the <Ctrl> plus the <Alt> plus the <-> (dash) keys
- It doesn't matter where you are in the document when you depress the keys
The cursor will now look like a large, bold underscore
Click on the Work menu
Click on the document you want to remove from the menu
- NOTE: you are not deleting the actual file, you are simply removing the document name from the Work menu list

Microsoft Word 2002 (XP) & 2003 Easy Access to Frequently Used Documents