removing doc's in the Office button doc. screen

[Fletchen]

Word still shows documents in the Office button 'Recent Documents' screen
that have been deleted. How do I get rid of those?
Can't find anything in 'help' -hah!- no right click except the ribbon options.
Any help, please.
Thanx

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If this is Word 2002 or 2003, you can delete them from the task pane by
deleting them from the File menu. Do this by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen and
then clicking on the one to be removed (be careful: this shortcut will
remove *any* menu item). If this is Word 2007, another method is required.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Jay Freedman]

Word still shows documents in the Office button 'Recent Documents' screen
that have been deleted. How do I get rid of those?
Can't find anything in 'help' -hah!- no right click except the ribbon options.
Any help, please.
Thanx

If you want to wipe out the whole list and start over, go to Office button >
Word Options > Advanced > Display and change the number of recent documents to
zero; click ok; go back to the same place and set the number back to the
original value.

To remove individual file names from the list, download the Recently Used Files
Editor from http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Recent_Files_List_Editor.htm.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Whoops, missed the reference to "Office button." For Word 2007, see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Recent_Files_List_Editor.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[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
or to edit the list see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Recent_Files_List_Editor.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com

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