If you work in Word on a daily basis, you may have come up with your own way of opening your most recent document. Some of you may navigate to the document in Windows Explorer, others may open the document from My Recent Documents, or others may locate the document within Word.

Well here is a nifty tip you can use to open your most recent Word document with only a click of your mouse. You can accomplish this by creating a shortcut on your desktop. After you are finished working on your document for the day, save it and close Word. Right click on the desktop, point to New, and click Shortcut. If you are using Word 2002, type in the following: “c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\winword.exe” /mFile1. If you are using Word 2003, change Office 10 to Office 11. Click Next and type in a name for the shortcut. Click Finish. When you double click the shortcut, it will automatically launch Word and open your most recent document.

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