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- Recent Documents 97 V1.5 - Windows 95/NT Start Menu Enhancement
- WINDOWS 95 NT DEC97 DOCUMENTS SHELL START MENU
- FILES: RDOC9715.ZIP
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- Author: Oakley Data Services
- Registration: $19.99
- Category: Utility
- E-Mail: info@smartcode.com
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- Recent Documents is an application to replace and enhance the
- functionality of the "Documents Menu" on your Windows 95 / NT4
- Start Menu.
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- 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: -
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- 1. It is not possible to customize which documents are listed,
- how they are listed or how many documents should be retained for
- future reference.
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- 2. You cannot age the documents, allowing documents that were
- referenced more than x days ago to be ignored.
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- 3. It is very difficult to remove a document from the menu if you
- don't want it there.
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- 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!
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- 5. You canÆt group documents into specified categories of
- document.
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- 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"
- of course!
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- "Recent Documents" provides a user interface to the function of the
- Documents Menu. Whilst Recent Documents is running, any documents
- that are passed by Windows to the Documents Menu will be redirected
- to "Recent Documents". These documents may then be viewed in various
- formats, they can be customised so that true document histories can
- be maintained, filtered to restrict which documents are displayed
- and automatically moved into user defined document category
- groupings.
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- Requires: WINDOWS 95/NT
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