Can't Find Recently Used Files List

[Bob Stringer]

I have Excel 2000 running on WinXP SP2.

In Tools | Options | General tab, I have checked Recently
used file list checked and set for 9 entries, but the File
menu doesn't have an MRU list.

Either I'm not understanding something basic, or I need to
fix Excel. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

 

[Silvabod]

On your pc, do you have any "housekeeping" utilities running which clear
"junk" - and is it/they set to clear MRU lists? Might not be Excel that's at
fault ...

 

[Bob Phillips]

Have you actually opened any files since checking that option? It is not
retrospective.

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HTH

RP
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On your pc, do you have any "housekeeping" utilities running which clear
"junk" - and is it/they set to clear MRU lists? Might not be Excel that's at
fault ...

 

[Bob Stringer]

On your pc, do you have any "housekeeping" utilities
running which clear "junk" - and is it/they set to clear
MRU lists? Might not be Excel that's at fault ...

I have to allow for the possibility that I'm caught in an
extended senior moment, and that I did install something in
the past, but I'm *pretty* sure that I didn't. I also have
Word 2000, and it always shows an MRU list. If I had ever
removed the MRU list in Excel, I'm sure I would have done it
in Work as well.

But thanks for the idea. I'll inventory what I have on the
computer this weekend, just to be sure that there isn't a
third party culprit.

 

[Bob Stringer]

Have you actually opened any files since checking that
option? It is not retrospective.

Yes I have.

Actually, it has been checked all along. I don't use Excel a
whole lot -- usually just one or two files at a time -- and
I've never looked for the MRU list before. I had to look at
the help file this morning to quickly find out where the
setting was, and when I opened it it was already checked.

Just to be sure, though, I just opened a couple files,
"edited" them by typing and deleting a character and then
saving, and they still don't show on the list.

If any other possibilities occur to you, please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Do you have TweakUI installed, if you use the clear recently used documents
in Windows it will clear the Office too

 

[Bob Stringer]

Do you have TweakUI installed, if you use the clear
recently used documents in Windows it will clear the
Office too

I have it, but I haven't used it in recent memory -- not to
clear MRU, anyway.

It occurs to me that Ad-Aware can clean out MRU lists, and I
have Ad-Aware, but I don't remember recently using it for
that purpose.

In any case, opening, editing and saving Excel documents
still isn't creating the MRU list. And so the problem is
persisting, whatever the original reason that the MRU list
went away (*assuming* the list was ever there in the first
place -- I really don't know since I never looked for it in
Excel before).

Still, any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks.