Probably need to raise this question in an Windows Operating System forum as
this is a Windows feature not Excel


"pkferret" wrote in message
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: The most you can enter is 9. And that only applies to the drop down menu
: from "File". I'm talking about in "open", "my recent documents"
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: "Jason W Dove" wrote:
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: For the number of items have you tried Tools - Options | General Tab |
: Recently used File list: 40
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: "pkferret" wrote:
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: 1. In Excel 98 I could keep things in icon view and they would remain
: alphabetical in recent documents. Now I can't seem to lock this view in.
: Anyone know how?
: 2. Also in the same menu, it used to show 40 or more items, now it only
: shows 16, can this be changed?