Deleting Filenames In "Recent Documents

[David Dyke]

Will someone please help me?

How can I 'delete' filenames that are no longer used or needed that appear
in the 'Recent Documents' menu that appears as soon as I click-on the Office
Button in the upper left portion of the screen? It is very confusing,
because...

The above-mentioned filenames are no longer on my PC anywhere (they are
deleted), but I keep getting that nagging Error Message.

Thanks to anyone.

 

[Alias]

Will someone please help me?

How can I 'delete' filenames that are no longer used or needed that appear
in the 'Recent Documents' menu that appears as soon as I click-on the Office
Button in the upper left portion of the screen? It is very confusing,
because...

The above-mentioned filenames are no longer on my PC anywhere (they are
deleted), but I keep getting that nagging Error Message.

Thanks to anyone.

Crap Cleaner will get rid of those temp files and many more. It's free
and you can get it at www.ccleaner.com

Alias

 

[Beth Melton]

Crap Cleaner will get rid of those temp files and many more. It's free and
you can get it at www.ccleaner.com

Except in this case the data in question is stored in the Registry and not
temp files.
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Microsoft Office MVP
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[Beth Melton]

Will someone please help me?

How can I 'delete' filenames that are no longer used or needed that appear
in the 'Recent Documents' menu that appears as soon as I click-on the
Office Button in the upper left portion of the screen? It is very
confusing, because...

The above-mentioned filenames are no longer on my PC anywhere (they are
deleted), but I keep getting that nagging Error Message.

You can clear the entire list by clicking the Office Button, Word Options
and under Advanced in the Display section change "Show this number of recent
documents" to 0 (zero), click OK, go back to Word Options and change the
recent documents back to your preferred number.

Alternatively you can delete individual entries in the Registry at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\File MRU

Another option is to not click on the files in the list that were deleted
and eventually they will disappear.
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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Another option is to not click on the files in the list that were deleted
and eventually they will disappear.

Or open files that *are* available until they shove the ones that aren't there
off the bottom of the list.

 

[Alias]

Except in this case the data in question is stored in the Registry and
not temp files.

It gets rid of them too.

Alias

 

[Beth Melton]

It gets rid of them too.

Last I heard it didn't remove the MRU lists from the Registry automatically
and you had to manually made some modifications in order to get them
cleaned. But who know, perhaps they made an update.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx