Clearing list of opened documents

[QX]

Using: MS Word 2002
When you click on <File> <New>, a panel opens which lists among other
things, <Open a Document> with a list of the last four documents that
were opened, then an <open folder icon> that says "More Documents".
How do I clear the listing of the last four documents that have been
opened?
The documents have been shredded with a multipass overwrite,
but the filenames remain here.
Security reasons. Thanks in Advance.

 

[QX]

Using: MS Word 2002
When you click on <File> <New>, a panel opens which lists among other
things, <Open a Document> with a list of the last four documents that
were opened, then an <open folder icon> that says "More Documents".
How do I clear the listing of the last four documents that have been
opened?
The documents have been shredded with a multipass overwrite,
but the filenames remain here.
Security reasons. Thanks in Advance.

Found it at <Tools> <Options><General> <Recently Used file list>, and
setting it to blank which also cleared the check select.
That effectively cleared the filename list out. Resetting it to a
value,closing Word and reopening it did not cause the file names to
re-appear. I now keep it set to <blank> unchecked.