Excel 2007 Recently Opened Filed List

[Tanya]

Excel 2007 is supposed to maintain a list of the last 50 opened files.
I opened about 45 files at one time and my recently opened list shows
only 28 filenames. There's nothing on the screen to suggest that I can
scroll to another screen or that the list continues. Has anyone tried
this and actually seen 50 files in the recently used list & if so does
Excel display them all at once or in multiple screens? Any ideas?
Thanks,

Tanya

 

[Jim Rech]

The list does not scroll so it will only show 50 files if there is enough
room between where the list starts and the Windows task bar. I got 50 to
show (just barely) with Excel maximized on a 1920x1200 display. If you have
a lower resolution I don't think you can see them all.

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Jim
| Excel 2007 is supposed to maintain a list of the last 50 opened files.
| I opened about 45 files at one time and my recently opened list shows
| only 28 filenames. There's nothing on the screen to suggest that I can
| scroll to another screen or that the list continues. Has anyone tried
| this and actually seen 50 files in the recently used list & if so does
| Excel display them all at once or in multiple screens? Any ideas?
| Thanks,
|
| Tanya
|

 

[Tanya]

The list does not scroll so it will only show 50 files if there is enough
room between where the list starts and the Windows task bar. I got 50 to
show (just barely) with Excel maximized on a 1920x1200 display. If you have
a lower resolution I don't think you can see them all.

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| Excel 2007 is supposed to maintain a list of the last 50 opened files.
| I opened about 45 files at one time and my recently opened list shows
| only 28 filenames. There's nothing on the screen to suggest that I can
| scroll to another screen or that the list continues. Has anyone tried
| this and actually seen 50 files in the recently used list & if so does
| Excel display them all at once or in multiple screens? Any ideas?
| Thanks,
|
| Tanya
|

Thanks Jim. It looks like you're right. I changed my screen resolution
to 1280 by 1024 & was able to see 41 file names. It seems Microsoft
has been a little misleading by omitting the details of how this
highly touted features works.