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Launch Word with the most recently used document

Hi
Cool tip
I have a question
Can I use it with excel or other application???

I have a generic shortcut for launching word (Win+w), then a quick Alt+f and choose from bottom of the list from 1 to 9, one of the last 9 documents opened in word (I have also set in word-tools-options-general to save the last 9 recently used file list. I find this more useful, and is equally set in other utilities (excel, pdf, media player, etc.)

Tried it on my Dell laptop running Win 7 Home ultimate. Couldn't get it to work as a shortcut, though adding the switch works on the run box.

thx for this hint!

another question: with pdf-readers you can choose that the files are re-opened at the page where you closed the file. this would be nice to have in word too. whenever I am working on or reading a bigger document and come back to it on the next day, I have to scroll to the page where I stopped working on it or reading it. Any idea if word has a similar option as adobe-reader? thx, Rob

The answer, I think, is yes and no. If you create a macro called AutoOpen within the Word template and put the command

Application.GoBack

in the macro, Word will always put the cursor at the place it was when the document was last saved. This isn't quite what you asked for but it works well for me.

Andy

I am using win 7 home ultimate and office 2003 and only get error message
The name "'C:\Program Files (86)\Microsoft Office\Office11\WINWORD.EXE"/mfile1' specified in the target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct.

I checked this out. You need a space between the closing quote marks and the forward slash or you get the ... not valid message.

I checked this out. You need a space between the closing quote marks and the forward slash or you get the message window "name ... is not valid".

Can not get this to work in MS Office 2010 Windows 7 64 bit. Both ways comes back with message similar to cannot locate file shows the file name and switch correctly.

Why not just drag the file(s) you want to open to the Startup folder? Seems easier and you can open multiple at the same time.

Personally, I have more than I want in my Startup folder now. Besides a person may not want to open the file (and application) the moment they start their computer or log in, just when they actually start the application.

My uses use Excel more often than Word, is there a similar function for Excel?

Why don't you right click on the Office icon (Word, Excel, P'Point) that is pinned to the task bar and select the recent document from there..........

Doesn't work with office12.

I have no need for such a task. I said when I saw the headline: "why?" So if you must, go ahead, I will not avail myself of this shortcut. That is why every document has its place n a subfolder of Word in My Documents--to make them easier to find. I do have one document that is accessed nearly on a daily basis that I do have a shorcut on the taskbar, same for several Excel documents, but I don't want to start the profram with these every time.

I used the "Shortcut Method" with success. Typing in the Run command takes too long for a hunt-and-peck typist like me. An easy way with Office 2010 is to have Word pinned to the Start menu. You click Start and move the cursor up to Word and just hover there. This will bring up many of your most recently viewed Word files.