tHANKS SO MUCH FOR THE INFO. I FINALLY WAS ABLE TO TOUCH BASE WITH MY
'COMPUTER GURU' AND HE TOLD ME THE SAME THING. THANKS FOR THE "SIMPLE" REPLY

"Michael" wrote:

Hi
TOOLS/OPTIONS/GENERAL
then either uncheck recently used file list or reduce it to 1 or 2.


HTH
Michael


"NANMAC" wrote:

I deleted an excel file I had typed. Now I can't figure out how to delete
the file name. It still shows up when you click on open to see the files.
You can still open this but there is nothing there. Need to delete FILE NAME