Deleting Recent Documents in Office Button menu

I have been able to eliminate Recent Documents in the Start Menu of Word, but
I still find the list appearing when I click the Office Button (top left of
page) to save or print, etc. How do I eliminate or at least make invisible
this list of recent documents?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
Clear the Recently used file list check box, and then click OK.
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Mark L. Ferguson

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"Mark S." <> wrote in message
news:33AECD87-EC91-4572-AE00-...
>I have been able to eliminate Recent Documents in the Start Menu of Word,
>but
> I still find the list appearing when I click the Office Button (top left
> of
> page) to save or print, etc. How do I eliminate or at least make invisible
> this list of recent documents?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the help, Mark, but I accidentally took an alternate route and
arrived, I think, at the same place. I couldn't find the Tools menu, so I
clicked the Office Button and there found Word Options. This button led me to
various choices, amongst which I opened Advanced, and then scrolled down to
Display. The first item under Display was "Show this number of recent
documents" -- mine was set at 17, so I simply set the number to zero. This
eliminated the list of recent documents in the Office Button, though the
heading "Recent Documents" still appears. This I can live with.

As Polonius once remarked, we often by indirection find direction out.
Thanks again.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.
> Clear the Recently used file list check box, and then click OK.
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> Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web
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>
> Mark L. Ferguson
>
> .
> "Mark S." <> wrote in message
> news:33AECD87-EC91-4572-AE00-...
> >I have been able to eliminate Recent Documents in the Start Menu of Word,
> >but
> > I still find the list appearing when I click the Office Button (top left
> > of
> > page) to save or print, etc. How do I eliminate or at least make invisible
> > this list of recent documents?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

"Mark S." <> wrote in message
news:33AECD87-EC91-4572-AE00-...
>I have been able to eliminate Recent Documents in the Start Menu of Word, but
> I still find the list appearing when I click the Office Button (top left of
> page) to save or print, etc. How do I eliminate or at least make invisible
> this list of recent documents?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Click the Office button in Word and hit the Word Options button.
In Word Options, click on Advanced.
Scroll down to the Display section of Advanced Options.
Change the number entered in the box next to "Show this number of Recent
Documents" to 0.
Scroll down and click on the OK button.

Note: If this doesn't answer your question, you might want to post this question
to the appropriate Office newsgroup. Be sure to state what version of Word
you're using.

For more info, take a look at this web site.

How to Clear and Delete Recent Documents List in Office 2007
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...el-powerpoint/

Good luck

Nepatsfan

omg. thank you, thank you . I had a huge long list and didn't know how to
delete it. I could delete the files but not the list. and microsoft help on
word did nothing. I can't thank you enough. what a simple thing to do. I
loved word 2003 but I wasn't computer literate then and had the little helper
to get me thru the dismay. Now I am still not literate in word 2007 and you
guys have helped me immensely. I WAS SO SICK OF LOOKING AT THAT LIST...
THANKS SO MUCH CAROL!!!!!!! WOW WHAT A REVELATION. I have put this web on my
favorites...

"Nepatsfan" wrote:

> "Mark S." <> wrote in message
> news:33AECD87-EC91-4572-AE00-...
> >I have been able to eliminate Recent Documents in the Start Menu of Word, but
> > I still find the list appearing when I click the Office Button (top left of
> > page) to save or print, etc. How do I eliminate or at least make invisible
> > this list of recent documents?
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Click the Office button in Word and hit the Word Options button.
> In Word Options, click on Advanced.
> Scroll down to the Display section of Advanced Options.
> Change the number entered in the box next to "Show this number of Recent
> Documents" to 0.
> Scroll down and click on the OK button.
>
> Note: If this doesn't answer your question, you might want to post this question
> to the appropriate Office newsgroup. Be sure to state what version of Word
> you're using.
>
> For more info, take a look at this web site.
>
> How to Clear and Delete Recent Documents List in Office 2007
> http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/0...el-powerpoint/
>
> Good luck
>
> Nepatsfan
>
>
>