Disabling Recent Files in Office 2007

By default, Word 2007 displays the last 17 documents that have been opened. Some users, like me, likes to increase this limit, but some use to reduce this limit to 0 and making the recent documents disabled. The number of recent can be increased or decreased, from 0 to 50. Disabling the number of recent documents in Word 2007 wont reduce the number of recent documents in Excel or PowerPoint. You need to go in every application to change this setting.

Follow these steps to perform the same.

1. Click On Office Button.
   
2. Go to Word Options.
   
3. Go to the Advanced tab, and look for Display section.
   
4. Look for "Show this number of Recent Documents" and fill your desired value from 0 to 50.
   

Click OK, and you are done with it.

Minimizing the Office 2007 Ribbon

For those of you who are working with low resolution of 1024X768, or below, you must have felt the need of more space while using office 2007. When I work in my college with same resolution, I always want to get more space, specially while using Powerpoint. Now, some more space can be added by minimizing the ribbon, and thus hiding all the buttons which are expanded. This came to me accidentally when I double click on the ribbon, and the ribbon minimized. (These kind of accidents are good )

This can be minimized either by double click on the tabs names, or right click on then and then choose "Minimize the Ribbon". After the ribbon is minimized, to access the options in each tab, single click them, and after the work is done, it auto hides. Double click it back, and you will see the expanded tabs once again.

Do try this simple trick, if you face space problem.

Fasten BroadBand using Firefox

Firefox users already access internet at much faster as what Internet explorer will help you do that. Now there is a way to increase the speed at which you are accessing internet in Firefox only.
HOW?? Lets find that out.

1. Open Firefox and in the Address Bar type in “about:config”, without Quotes
2. In the filter box type in Network, and scroll down to find “Network.HTTP.Pipelining”.
3. Change the value to “True” by double clicking on that.
4. Also just below that “Network.HTTP.pipelining.maxrequests”, change its value from 4 to 10



5. Click OK, and quit Firefox, reopen it and you would be able to see the difference

If you are using windows 98, then you might need to restart the computer for the changes to take effect.

Change the Default folder in Windows Explorer

Whenever you open Windows Explorer you would see it opening in My Documents, and you need to go all the way to your folder. If you want to get the folder of your choice at the very start of Explorer, then you just need to make some changes in its properties. Here’s what you need to do.

1. Go to Start –> Programs –> Accessories –> Right Click on Windows Explorer and choose Properties.
2. Go to the Shortcut tab and then into the target, add the line ” /n, /e, /select, C:\”, without Quotes, Now your target should look like this.

3. Instead of “C:\” you can type the path of your folder and whenever you will open Explorer, it will come up with your Folder.

Now, If you are using Pre Windows XP, then you can access Windows Explorer by Shortcut “Windows Logo + E”, but in case of Windows XP this shortcut is already defined to give you the explorer window with selection as My Computer. In Xp you need to open it by going into start menu, or you can create a shortcut as well.

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