my recent documents inacessible

[Jennifer Blake]

Hi,

Someone I work with installed office 2007, professional I think. Now his
"My Recent Documents" listing is gone from all his office apps. When he
tried to put update the number of files to list the option is greyed out
and he got some message about a policy preventing the change. Any ideas
what policy and where? He has admin rights.

Thanks, Jennifer

 

[Tim]

It sounds like this is a corporate environment. Did the IT department
install Office 2007? If so, perhaps they have restricted this feature (not
sure why) via a group policy or something similar. Please post back with an
update as there may be a different solution depending on your answer.

Is your friend's PC running XP or Vista?

Tim

 

[Jennifer Blake]

No, not corporate, academic. The machine is running 32 bit XP. And no IT
dept. installed office, the professor did on his own machine, not in a
domain so no group policies, just a simple workgroup.

Jennifer

 

[Tim]

OK...check out this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284896/en-us?FR=1

It may apply to Office 2007 as well. Note that you will need to download and
install "Tweak UI" first if you don't have it already. It's a free utility
from Microsoft. Get it from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Tim

 

[Jennifer Blake]

It was TweakUI, thanks.

OK...check out this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284896/en-us?FR=1

It may apply to Office 2007 as well. Note that you will need to download
and install "Tweak UI" first if you don't have it already. It's a free
utility from Microsoft. Get it from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Tim