Recently Used File List... Gone!!

[Major]

I have updated my Office 2003 Professional CD by slipstreaming SP2 into it.
I then updated my installed version with the SP2 edition.
Now the 'Recently use file list' in the Tools > Options > General Tab is
greyed out in all my Office applications....grrrrrrr!

Is there any way to fix this? as I have files spread over 9 working drives &
3 storage drives & hunting for files is a real time vacuum.

TIA

 

[DatabaseBen]

I was hoping to seeing what kind of a response you would get. But none so
far...

I have the same problem too. However I had attributed the empty listing to
my registry cleaner because
I have it set to delete the MRU's.

I found some information regarding MRU and there is a registry entry for
each office
product called mru file name. There is also a setting for each of the
products for the number of files
to list.

I think that it may be possible for you to open an older registry, export
those particular entries to a file,
then import them into your current registry. This should fix you right up -
I think.

Since I have 2 partitions, I am not as lost (most of the time) with locating
files.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Whenever, you have such problems then the best approach is to do a
Detect & Repair which takes about 5 minutes. You don't even need CDs if
you have cached the installation files - this is default in setup.

Try this:

Help, Detect & Repair

hth

 

[Major]

Here is the fix Ben........

The "Most recently used" list is missing from the File menu, and the
"Recently
used file list" option is unavailable in Office XP and in Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284896/en-us

--
Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
http://office.microsoft.com/

http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/publisher/FX100649111033.aspx

Mary is a champion!!

 

[DatabaseBen]

thank you....

(i don't know why m.s. don't put smart tags on those options that will take
us to these k.b.'s?)