How do I delete doc history?

[General Mailbox]

Word2000

Greetings.
I couldn't find any reference to how to delete the listing of the past 4
documents viewed under the file tab.
I would appreciate someone telling me and also if possible to even shut that
'convenience' down.
Thank you!
Kevin

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Word2000

Greetings.
I couldn't find any reference to how to delete the listing of the
past 4 documents viewed under the file tab.
I would appreciate someone telling me and also if possible to even
shut that 'convenience' down.
Thank you!
Kevin

For the life of me, I can't figure you why someone would want to. BTW
if it is a security issue, you can open four new dummy documents to
overwrite the one's showing. I suspect just turning it off does not
eliminate the list.

 

[Bg]

Look in Tool > Options. Select the General tab and either un-check the
"Recently used file list" or change the number of entries.

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[SunnyB©]

For the life of me, I can't figure you why someone would want to. BTW
if it is a security issue, you can open four new dummy documents to
overwrite the one's showing. I suspect just turning it off does not
eliminate the list.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why you would offer your worthless
opinion when it wasn't asked for nor needed.

The OP asked specifically for a solution to eliminate the past document
list. He didn't ask for opinions on the wisdom of the action.

If you didn't have an answer or didn't want to answer why didn't you just go
on about your business and save us the pleasure of your vast knowledge base.


§ß©

 

[Joseph Meehan]

For the life of me, I can't figure out why you would offer your
worthless opinion when it wasn't asked for nor needed.

The OP asked specifically for a solution to eliminate the past
document list. He didn't ask for opinions on the wisdom of the action.

If you didn't have an answer or didn't want to answer why didn't you
just go on about your business and save us the pleasure of your vast
knowledge base.


§ß©

For the life of me I don't know why you don't read the messages you
complain about. If you did, you would see I did offer an answer.

Without knowing why they might want to "delete" the file references I
could not be sure of the best solution to offer.

BTW the best answer to a question is often a question.

 

[General Mailbox]

Thank you Bg!
Maybe my file was "Reasons to fire Joseph Meehan.doc" It wouldn't do much
good to change a folder's attribute to "hide" if Word just links to it
anyway. *smiles*

But really, Joseph, that was an idea but wastes time. Thanks anyway for the
response.
Kevin
Look in Tool > Options. Select the General tab and either un-check the
"Recently used file list" or change the number of entries.

Bg

 

[Joseph Meehan]

Thank you Bg!
Maybe my file was "Reasons to fire Joseph Meehan.doc" It wouldn't do
much good to change a folder's attribute to "hide" if Word just links
to it anyway. *smiles*

But really, Joseph, that was an idea but wastes time. Thanks anyway
for the response.
Kevin

Sorry I could not be of more help.

I might have sounded a little harsh.

Try to understand I have spent years dealing with employees who feared
that somehow they would get in trouble if someone saw what they were really
doing at work. I already knew what they were doing and didn't really care
as long as it did not interfere with the work they had to do. They also did
not know how easy it would be to figure out what they were trying to hide
anyway.

Then there were the other third who could not find a file if it was not
on the list. They would ask me to help them find a file, when asked where
did they save it, they could only point to the recently used list, other
than that they had no idea. I would show them how to find it and where it
was stored and explain about folders/directories and two weeks later, same
problem. Oh well. They were good at what I really needed them for.