Recent Items

Recent items are recently opened applications, documents, and servers. Mac OS automatically tracks the things you open and creates submenus of the ten most recently opened items in each category, making it quick and easy to open them again.

To open recent items

To open a recently used application, choose its name from the Recent Applications submenu under the Apple menu (Figure 46).

Figure 46. Mac OS tracks the most recently used applications…

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To open a recently used document, choose its name from the Recent Document submenu under the Apple menu (Figure 47).

Figure 47. …the most recently used documents…

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