How can I delete document history?

G

Guest

Yes. The list of documents that show up under "Recent documents " when you
click on the little Office button upper left hand corner where Save and Save
as.. etc is.
 
G

Guest

Thanks Joann, I actually had seen that already, but could not believe that I
had to actually go in and make changes to the registry to do something as
simple as clearing used document data, when previous versions took care of
that with a check box. How dumb is that.
 
H

Herb Tyson [MVP]

Pretty dumb. But, enough corporate users (translation: cu$tomer$) have asked
for this that I suspect a method in the UI will be forthcoming. Hopefully
before Word 14...
 
G

Graham Mayor

The list is stored in the registry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12\Word\FileMRU, from where you
can delete individual entries
or
You can use the following macro which will reset the list to your preset
preferred number of displayed documents:

Sub ClearMRU
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
listsize = RecentFiles.Maximum
RecentFiles.Maximum = 0
RecentFiles.Maximum = listsize
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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G

Guest

I know i am old and a bit slow but i cant find the registry to delete these
files in word . I have deleted the file but under the office button the
shortcut remains and when you click on it it says no file to be found
 

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