Where are recent documents stored?

[Guest]

I need to find out who produced a memo in the office, so will need to check
the most recent documents opened in Word.
Word is set only to show the last 4 documents in the File menu, so if it is
not in the most recent 4 is there a folder that i can look in to check other
recent documents opened and saved? That is if the person was stupid enough
to save it!

Many thanks for any help,
James

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You could try Word's History, or use Windows Search to look for documents
created within a given date range.

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

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[Tony Jollans]

I'm not sure what Suzanne means by Word's History but I believe shortcuts to
edited files are kept for quite a while, if not indefinitely, in Documents
and Settings\(user)\Recent

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Kind of sounds like someone created a memo they shouldn't have - and no one
is claiming responsibility.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I was too lazy to check File Open and find that what I called "History" is
actually called My Recent Documents. It is a total mystery to me what
criteria Word uses for inclusion, since this list frequently includes files
that haven't been opened in weeks and omits ones I just closed.

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

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