Office 2007 Home & Student (All Programs)

[David Dyke]

I have asked this before:

How can I delete a file that appears in 'Recent Documents' that I don't
want? (Where does 'Office' store these? I can't delete them.)

I was told once before to just 'not show only the offending file(s)' , but
this becomes confusing. I want to permanently 'delete' some of the 'Recent
Files' completely so that they don't show at all. (A file in total, not just
the filename, has been deleted from my computer. Can someone understand what
I'm trying to ask? Bottom line, where does Office just store the filename?)

(Another example: I worked-on a file transferred to this machine via 'Memory
Stick'. Of course the 'Memory Stick' appeared in the 'Removable Disk' tree
on Windows Explorer. I 'Opened' the file up in Excel, worked on it, saved
the changes, removed the 'Memory Stick' from my machine, therefore
everything is gone, but in 'Recent Documents' the filename remains. When I
'click' on it, of course I get an Error Message that says the file is not
valid, so how can I remove it?

This is long. Sorry. Hope it gets someone's attention. I am sure I am not
the only Dummie with this simple problem.

Thanks.

Dave

 

[Bob I]

The registry, and editing it may not be the wisest course of action on
your part. The safe method would be to Set the Options in Excel to show
ONE file less than the listing of the problem file and let the system
remove the entry.

 

[Tony Luxton]

Hi David,

Try C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent. You might have to have hidden folders shown.

HTH Tony.