File, Recent

Quick reference

• 00:04 Hello, what you're seeing on my screen is the opening screen to Microsoft Word, and
• 00:09 I wanna draw your attention to the left-hand blue panel that says recent.
• 00:13 Now on this list is the most recent documents that I personally have
• 00:16 worked on.
• 00:17 Now notice what's happening when I float my mouse down on this list,
• 00:20 a little pushpin appears on the right-hand side.
• 00:23 Now they only appear if you float your mouse on there.
• 00:26 And that pushpin basically is going to allow me to pin a document,
• 00:30 that I'm using on a regular basis, to the top of this list.
• 00:33 So, I'll go ahead and push this tiny pin and you can observe what happens.
• 00:37 There, it's got its own little section called pinned, and
• 00:40 then the other ones are underneath the today section.
• 00:43 So what if I wanna pin another one?
• 00:45 Just go ahead and click another pushpin, and there it is.
• 00:48 All right, I do have this file folder here that says open other documents, and
• 00:52 over here on the right-hand side,
• 00:54 these are all the brand new templates that are absolutely free to use.
• 00:58 You don't have any copyright infringement, and you have full access to use these for
• 01:03 personal or business or whatever you want, simply because you have a registered
• 01:08 copy of Microsoft on your screen, on your computer.
• 01:12 Well, the beauty is once you find one you like, you can pin it.
• 01:15 This one I'll unpin, and then maybe I decide wait a minute,
• 01:18 I want that one, so I'll pin again.
• 01:21 Maybe you like this report layout, pin it and it moves itself to the top.
• 01:24 Maybe you're done with this one, you can unpin it.
• 01:27 So you can find favorite one's you want to use and you can pin those.
• 01:30 So the moral of the story is look for these tiny little pushpins.
• 01:34 The interesting thing is they don't even show up until you float your mouse on
• 01:38 the title and then the little pushpin will show up on the side.
• 01:42 So that is true for these little tiny files, for the file list over here on
• 01:47 the left hand side, and now let me go ahead and open up a blank document.
• 01:52 And I wanna show you the file open section.
• 01:55 So if I click File, and then open, it's already on open, notice,
• 01:59 my recent files are right here, selected on the left, and sure enough,
• 02:04 they're pinned right over here.
• 02:07 So, if you're done with these, done working on this particular file,
• 02:10 just unpin it, and it goes back into the list right here.
• 02:13 It's really a very nice and convenient way to keep your active,
• 02:18 current files at the top of the list.
• 02:21 So, less clicking is always a happier computer user.
• 02:25 All right, one more thing I wanna show you is on this PC section,
• 02:29 when I click this PC, this shows me other places that I've got files stored.
• 02:35 And basically these, in previous versions, did have pushpins,
• 02:40 so I can actually pin a file location to the list.
• 02:43 The only reason I'm putting this out to you is that in case you knew that,
• 02:47 you're going to be looking for these pushpins and
• 02:49 I'm sorry, you're going to be disappointed if they are not there anymore.
• 02:52 I myself am very disappointed, but
• 02:54 at the same time, at least we still have the recent,
• 02:57 and we still have the pushpins right over there, which are very convenient.
• 03:01 All right, as long as you are aware of that, that you can pin your files,
• 03:05 we're ready to move on.
• 03:06 Thank you.

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