My Recent Documents lists several Excel Charts

[Chuck W]

Hi,
I like using My Recent documents to quickly pull up Excel 2007 files that I
work on. Many of my Excel files have graphs in them. When I go to My Recent
Documents, there may be two or three Excel files and the other 7-8
"documents" listed are things like Pchart.xlm, Vchart.xlm and scatter.xlm.
How do I exclude these files from appearing in My Recent Documents. I
basically just want Excel, Access and Word documents to appear.

Thanks,

Chuck

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,
I like using My Recent documents to quickly pull up Excel 2007 files
that I work on. Many of my Excel files have graphs in them. When I
go to My Recent Documents, there may be two or three Excel files and
the other 7-8 "documents" listed are things like Pchart.xlm,
Vchart.xlm and scatter.xlm. How do I exclude these files from
appearing in My Recent Documents. I basically just want Excel,
Access and Word documents to appear.

Thanks,

Chuck

I don't know of any way to control this. It will show you all recent files
that Windows knows you to have opened. There isn't any way to tell it to
ignore specific file types - at least nothing built in that I know of.

 

[Rey Santos]

If you rightclick each document on the list and choose Properties you will
see that they are mere shortcuts. Choosing Delete instead of Properties would
delete them on the list but the file remains. At least thats what I know, you
can try to do it by creating a document and then delete it from the list.

 

[Charles W Davis]

I suggest that you use the folders under My Documents for your documents.
Create a folder for Excel, one for Word, and one for Access. Ignore the
"recent" stuff. Open Excel 2007, click on the Office logo orb at the upper
left, your recent Excel documents (and no others) will appear.