Recent Documents 97

This 30 day trial of Recent Documents 97 enhances the functionality of the "Documents" menu item that leads off the Start Button in Windows 95 and NT4.

Normally the sub-menu displayed by the "Documents Menu", lists the last 15 document files that you have accessed, allowing any of these documents to be reopened simply by clicking on the name of the document. Whilst this facility was very welcome within the new "Windows 95" interface, there are some issues and limitations with it: -

1. It is not possible to customise which documents are listed or how many documents should be retained for future reference.
2. You cannot age the documents, allowing documents that were referenced more than x days ago to be ignored.
3. It is very difficult to remove a document from the menu if you don't want it there.
4. If you access two documents that have the same file name, but reside in different folders, only the last document referenced will be stored. The "Documents Menu" ignores folder names!
5. You can't group documents into user specified categories of document.

These "features" of the Documents Menu, relegate this (should be) useful feature of Windows to another one of those "it's there, but I don't use it" tools. So what's the answer... "Recent Documents 97" of course!

"Recent Documents 97" provides an application interface to the function of the Documents Menu. Any documents that are passed by Windows to the Documents Menu, will be redirected to "Recent Documents". Recent Documents 97 provides complete management for the documents including categorization, locking so they don't get deleted, rules based processing (where you can say "keep this type of document for x days, put it in that category, but just throw away references to documents that end with .xyz or any that have "draft" somewhere in their name) and more.