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Microsoft Windows XP
Lesson 5-6: Opening Recently
Used Documents
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The My Recent
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You can choose to clear
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Windows remembers the files that you used most recently so you can quickly retrieve them
without having to dig through several browse windows. This lesson shows you how to use the
Documents option in the Start menu to open a recently used file.
Use the Notepad program to create a simple text file (type whatever you
want in it) and save it in the root directory of the Local Disk C: with the
name Junk File. Close Notepad.
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First, we need to create a document so Windows will be able to retrieve it.
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You learned how to save files in a previous lesson—just select File → Save from the
menu and select the location where you want to save the file (the root directory of the
(C:) drive).
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You could retrieve the Junk File by opening Notepad and selecting File → Open from
the menu. You could retrieve the Junk File by opening My Computer or Windows
Explorer, opening the (C:) drive, and double-clicking the file. Or…you could just
select the Junk File from the My Recent Documents menu, as we’ll see in the next step.
Click the Start button and select My Recent Documents.
The My Recent Documents menu appears, listing your recently used files, as shown in
Figure 5-14. Can you find your Junk File?
Select the Junk file from the Documents menu.
The Junk file opens in Notepad, where you can review and make changes to the file.
Close the Notepad program.
Although there’s really no need to, you can remove the list of recent documents from
the My Recent Documents menu.