Create a Work Menu
The Problem:
There are a handful of documents that I need to be able to open easily. Sometimes they appear on the Most Recently Used list on the File menu, but I work with many other documents, so they're not always there.
The Solution:
Microsoft provides a Work menu (see Figure 1-9) that you can add to the menu bar so that you can keep up to nine documents readily available.
Figure 1-9. Add the Work menu to the menu bar (or to a convenient toolbar) for quick access to the documents you use most often.
To add the Work menu to the menu bar, choose Tools 
Customize, click the Commands tab, and make sure that the "Save in" drop-down list shows the document or template you want to affect. (Usually, Normal.dot is the best choice.) Select the Built-in Menus item, and drag the Work menu to the menu bar or a toolbar you always keep open. Shift-click the File menu and choose Save All. If Word prompts you to save changes to Normal.dot, click the Yes button.
To add the current document to the Work menu, choose Work Add to Work Menu. To remove a document, press Ctrl+Alt+-, click the Work menu, and then click the document you want to remove.