Tish wrote:
I am trying to delete an already previously saved Excel spreadsheet that is
no longer needed. When I go to the Office button at the top left corner of
Excel & go to recent document & then highlight the Excel spreadsheet, I no
longer need, it does not give me the choice to do what I want to do. How do I
delete an already previously saved Excel spreadsheet?

The "most recently used" (MRU) list is a numbered list of files you have
opened recently and provides a convenient way to open them again. As you
have found, this is the only functionality the MRU provides.

If you really want to delete the file itself (not just the entry in the
MRU) you will need to use Windows Explorer to navigate to the folder
where the file is saved, highlight it, and press delete. This will not,
however, change the MRU.

There are only two ways to change the MRU:

- Open different files until the one you want to lose disappears
- Change the "recent files" setting in Tools | Options to a low number,
close Excel, then reopen Excel. Note! This will remove all files from
the MRU that are numbered higher than the setting you choose. You can,
of course, change the recent files setting again at this point, but
files that were zapped from the MRU will not appear there again until
you open them.

There is actually a third way to change the MRU but it involves editing
the registry and is not recommended.