# Star or label a recent file

Add a file from Recent Files to Favorites, or put your own labels on it, from the row's menu.

Recent Files forgets. A file drops off once you've opened fifty newer ones, so anything you'll want next month is worth marking while it's still in front of you. A star puts the file in Favorites; a label groups it with related files, whatever folder each one is in.

## Star a file

- Point at the file's row and select the three dots at its right-hand end.
- Select **Favorite**. The file now appears in **Favorites** as well, and it stays there after it has left Recent Files.

![The menu for a starred file in Recent Files. Its first entry reads Unfavorite beside a filled star, followed by Label, Rename, Share, Activity, Download and Delete.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/recent-files/menu-starred.png)

*On a file that is already starred, the first entry reads Unfavorite and the star is filled.*

To take the star off, open the same menu and select **Unfavorite**. The file stays in its folder either way.

## Label a file

- Open the file's menu and select **Label**. A panel opens listing your labels, with a tick beside each one the file already carries.
- Select a label to add it, or select a ticked one to take it off.

  ![A panel headed Labels for Management Accounts - August 2026.xlsx. It lists six labels, each with a coloured dot: Awaiting sign-off, Reference, Urgent, Board, Compliance and Finance. Board and Finance are highlighted and ticked. Beneath the list is the option Create new label.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/nest/recent-files/label-picker.png)
- Select **Save**. The button appears only once something has changed, so a panel with no **Save** is one where nothing has been altered yet.

The label you need may not exist yet. Select **Create new label** at the foot of the panel, enter a name, choose a colour, and select **Create**.

> **Note:**
>
> Labels belong to you. Nobody else can add your labels to a file, and changing yours leaves any labels a colleague has put on the same file exactly as they were.