TLC Tips of the Week:                          from Helen Olberg

This week’s tip applies to Microsoft Word.

The Work menu is a little-known Word feature that allows you to keep a quick list of your most-often-used or favorite Word files. (This is different from your most-recently-used file list under the File menu.)

To add the Work menu to the menu bar or a toolbar:

  1. On the Tools menu, click Customize, and then click the Commands tab.
  2. In the Categories box, click Built-in Menus.
  3. Click Work in the Commands box and drag it to either your menu bar or one of your displayed toolbars at the top of your Word window.
  4. Click Close.

With the Work menu in place, you can add, open, or remove Word documents to/from this list. Here are the options:

Add the current document to the Work menu

 On the Work menu, click Add to Work Menu

Open a document on the Work menu

 On the Work menu, click the document you want to open

Remove a document from the Work menu

1.  Press CTRL ALT -  (Your cursor will look like a large, bold underscore). Then

2.  On the Work menu, click the document you want to remove

 

 

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