How to delete Excel 2007 file from list under Recent Documents

**GPS** · August 28th 06, 02:30 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc

I deleted all old files from my documents folder but all still shows up at
Recent Documents when opening Excel. Any Ideas?

**Brad** · August 28th 06, 02:43 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc

GPS wrote:
> I deleted all old files from my documents folder but all still shows up at
> Recent Documents when opening Excel. Any Ideas?

Recent documents is just a folder. You can remove the links by openning
up the recent files folder and deleting the links.

To clear the My Recent Documents list, follow these steps:
1. Right-click Start, and then click Properties. Or, if the Start menu
is already displayed, right-click an empty area of the Start menu, and
then click Properties.
2. Click Customize.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Under Recent documents, click Clear List, click OK, and then click
OK. Your most recently used documents are removed from the My Recent
Documents folder. Note that this action does not delete the documents
from your hard disk.

Brad
http://www.pcast.com

**Jim Rech** · August 28th 06, 01:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc

Excel 2007's MRU list is kept in the registry he

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\E xcel\File MRU

You can easily delete them all but picking among them is tedious (with
REGEDIT). Someone should write a script to do that!

--
Jim
"GPS" > wrote in message
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|I deleted all old files from my documents folder but all still shows up at
| Recent Documents when opening Excel. Any Ideas?

**GPS** · August 28th 06, 09:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc

Thanks Jim,

Very Good!

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"Jim Rech" wrote:

> Excel 2007's MRU list is kept in the registry he
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\E xcel\File MRU
>
> You can easily delete them all but picking among them is tedious (with
> REGEDIT). Someone should write a script to do that!
>
> --
> Jim
> "GPS" > wrote in message
> ...
> |I deleted all old files from my documents folder but all still shows up at
> | Recent Documents when opening Excel. Any Ideas?
>
>
>

**Patty Jones** · November 14th 09, 02:59 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc

Office Button>Advanced>Display>Show this number of Recent Documents>
Set to 0 (zero)

Works everytime.

"Brad" wrote:

> GPS wrote:
> > I deleted all old files from my documents folder but all still shows up at
> > Recent Documents when opening Excel. Any Ideas?
>
>
> Recent documents is just a folder. You can remove the links by openning
> up the recent files folder and deleting the links.
>
>
> To clear the My Recent Documents list, follow these steps:
> 1. Right-click Start, and then click Properties. Or, if the Start menu
> is already displayed, right-click an empty area of the Start menu, and
> then click Properties.
> 2. Click Customize.
> 3. Click the Advanced tab.
> 4. Under Recent documents, click Clear List, click OK, and then click
> OK. Your most recently used documents are removed from the My Recent
> Documents folder. Note that this action does not delete the documents
> from your hard disk.
>
>
>
>
> Brad
> http://www.pcast.com
>

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