Existing File Doesn't Show Up in "Recent" List

[jamesmcnee]

When I open Excel the "Project Gallery" opens up and if I click on
recent I get a list of files and options about how recent and what
format ...

The weird thing is that I have a file I use at least once a week.
That file never shows up as a recent file -- even when I define
"recent" as "all."

No big deal but it is a bit of a pain. I just have to go into "open
other" or remember and go through finder to get the file then click it
to open Excel.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[jamesmcnee]

When I open Excel the "Project Gallery" opens up and if I click on
recent I get a list of files and options about how recent and what
format ...

The weird thing is that I have a file I use at least once a week.
That file never shows up as a recent file -- even when I define
"recent" as "all."

No big deal but it is a bit of a pain. I just have to go into "open
other" or remember and go through finder to get the file then click it
to open Excel.

Any ideas?

Thanks

I should have said I am running Excel 2004 for Mac version 11.3.7 on a
G5 iMac using OSX 10.4.10

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

The Project Gallery's Recent feature checks to see if the recently used
files are currently available before it presents them.

If, for example, the document you wanted was on a shared server or network
drive and your computer is not connected to the network at that moment, then
Project Gallery will not present the document to you.

This behavior is different from the recently used files on the application's
File menu, which shows them regardless of whether or not they are available.

Perhaps this explains what you are observing.

-Jim

When I open Excel the "Project Gallery" opens up and if I click on
recent I get a list of files and options about how recent and what
format ...

The weird thing is that I have a file I use at least once a week.
That file never shows up as a recent file -- even when I define
"recent" as "all."

No big deal but it is a bit of a pain. I just have to go into "open
other" or remember and go through finder to get the file then click it
to open Excel.

Any ideas?

Thanks

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

MVPs are not Microsoft Employees
MVP info

 

[Josiah]

Same problem, but on Leopard. The file is on the local hard drive so the problem isn't that it isn't available. Word docs in the same directory show up as expected.

This is not a problem if the file was created within the search parameters. For example, If I look at the "today" items with All Office Documents selected, any word documents created and modified today show up. To the contrary, any Excel documents created today show up, but any modified today do not.

It seems that it fails to check the modified date and is instead using the created date on Excel documents.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Same problem, but on Leopard. The file is on the local hard drive so the
problem isn't that it isn't available. Word docs in the same directory show
up as expected. <br><br>This is not a problem if the file was created within
the search parameters. For example, If I look at the "today" items with All
Office Documents selected, any word documents created and modified today show
up. To the contrary, any Excel documents created today show up, but any
modified today do not. <br><br>It seems that it fails to check the modified
date and is instead using the created date on Excel documents.

Does anyone using a web browser have a clue what this refers to? Since
the subject line was changed, no quotation, no valid email address, and
an out-of-date reference, I haven't got the faintest idea.

 

[Tobias Weber]

Does anyone using a web browser have a clue what this refers to? Since
the subject line was changed, no quotation, no valid email address, and
an out-of-date reference, I haven't got the faintest idea.

So you got the reference header? Just use the mighty browser and search
for it:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.excel/browse_t
hread/thread/d67182e3de1d9cd7/

 

[JE McGimpsey]

So you got the reference header? Just use the mighty browser and search
for it:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.excel/browse_t
hread/thread/d67182e3de1d9cd7/

Strange... for some reason I got "the requested message could not be
found", earlier.

Thanks!

 

[Josiah]

Sorry for the confusion.

 

[Mayfield Intl]

I am having a similar problem with XL08 - I have set the preferences
"general" to show 7 RECENT documents in the FILE Pulldown Menu.
NONE are showing despite all the usual trials - quite, restart, reboot, etc
etc.
Any ideas anyone what I am doing wrong
Thank you

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

I am having a similar problem with XL08 - I have set the preferences
"general" to show 7 RECENT documents in the FILE Pulldown Menu.
NONE are showing despite all the usual trials - quite, restart, reboot, etc
etc.
Any ideas anyone what I am doing wrong
Thank you

I have a hunch that you are not looking in the right place. The recent file
list does not appear at the bottom of the file menu as it did in prior
versions. Try File-Open Recent instead.

 

[Mayfield Intl]

Thanks Bob - for me this is a change from before - but I will get used to
it.