Re: Creating "sticky" item in File >> Open Recent menu?
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- Subject: [mg81703] Re: Creating "sticky" item in File >> Open Recent menu?
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:28:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Go to Option inspector, Choose Global preferences Under Global options choose Menu Settings On the NOtebooks MEnu item click on the edit box (thie thingie with a hammer and wrench icon on it) This brings up a dialog that allows you to edit the items that are currently in your history or to add ones. For the ones that you want to keep permanently, click "edit" and uncheck "recycle menu slot automatically) This functionality is rather deeply embedded in the optoin inspector structure... In A WorkLife FrameWork there is a palette that has Favorites and Recent files that you nave opened, which extends this sort of thing consideralby (see http://scientificarts.com/worklife/documentation/favoritesandrecentpalette.html). --David http://scientificarts.com/worklife A WorkLife FrameWork E x t e n d i n g MATHEMATICA's Reach... On Oct 1, 4:56 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote: > There was a way in 5.1 to insert "sticky" notebook names in the File >> > Open Recent menu (i.e., notebooks that would never age out of the Open > Recent menu -- like a notebook in which you entered and saved tips & > tricks for later use). > > I've lost the instructions on how to do this -- anyone else recall It? > > [MacBook, OS 10.4.10, Mathematica 6.0.1]