How to Open Documents
Word keeps track of the documents you’ve worked on most recently. You can quickly open one of these documents by choosing it from the list at the bottom of the File menu. As many as nine documents can be listed at the bottom of the file menu. To change the number of documents in this list, click the Tools menu and select Options…; then select the General tab. Type the number of documents you want to list in the Recently used file list field.
If you want to edit or add to a document that you’ve saved previously, you can open it by clicking the File menu and selecting Open. The Open dialog box appears listing Word documents. If you’re not sure where the document is located, click the Tools button and select Search. This feature allows you to locate a file if you know the file name, specific text in the document, or the date it was created or last modified. Word lists documents that meet the search criteria you specify.
