How do I clear the "save as" text box?

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I want to clear the history from my text box in the "save as" window in Word.
When I click on the "file name" box to type in a document name a list of all
the recent saved documents shows in the drop down menu. I can't delete them
and I can't even manually backspace them out - they always come back.
Clearing search history doesn't affect this.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?c2xvbmU=?=,

You might try asking in the word.setup.networking newsgroup if someone knows how
this could be done. I suspect it would mean editing the Registry, though, if it
can be done at all.

I want to clear the history from my text box in the "save as" window in Word.
When I click on the "file name" box to type in a document name a list of all
the recent saved documents shows in the drop down menu. I can't delete them
and I can't even manually backspace them out - they always come back.
Clearing search history doesn't affect this.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It can be done, and it does involve the Registry. There's an omnibus article
for Word 7.0 (Word for Windows 95), "WD95: How to Reset Word 7.0 MRU Lists"
at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=161630. There are similar articles for
Word 97 ("WD97: How to Reset Word 97 Most Recently Used (MRU) Lists at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=161631) and Word 2003 ("How to edit
Windows registry to clear the list of most recently used files in Office
2003" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826208) but nothing specific for
Word 2002.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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