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Recently used file list not available in Word 2003 and Excel 2003



 
 
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Old May 14th, 2004, 08:02 PM
Norm 5080
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Default Recently used file list not available in Word 2003 and Excel 2003

I have office 2003 and my recently used file list (at the bottom of the file
menu) has disappeared. Have gone to Tools/general/ and the option to enable
and select the number of files to be shown is grayed out and unable to be
selected. Have this problem on both Excel 2003 and Word 2003. Might also
exist on power point but I haven't been using that. Any help on how to get
this option working again would be greatly appreciated.


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Old May 14th, 2004, 09:23 PM
Eric Lawrence [MSFT]
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Default Recently used file list not available in Word 2003 and Excel 2003

Are you using this on a corporate network? (If so, it's possible that your
administrator disabled this option.)

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Eric Lawrence
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"Norm 5080" wrote in message
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I have office 2003 and my recently used file list (at the bottom of the

file
menu) has disappeared. Have gone to Tools/general/ and the option to

enable
and select the number of files to be shown is grayed out and unable to be
selected. Have this problem on both Excel 2003 and Word 2003. Might

also
exist on power point but I haven't been using that. Any help on how to

get
this option working again would be greatly appreciated.




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Old May 15th, 2004, 02:31 PM
Norman Epstein
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Default Recently used file list not available in Word 2003 and Excel 2003

no...not using on any network...any other ideas?


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Old May 15th, 2004, 06:27 PM
Tony
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Default Recently used file list not available in Word 2003 and Excel 2003

You can use TweakUI to restore the settings

For Windows XP get TweakUI from this link
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp
Within TweakUI in the Explorer section make sure that "Maintain document
history" is selected.

For other versions of Windows use TweakUI 1.33 available from this link
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstati.../nttweakui.asp
Select the IE tab.
Click to select the "Add new documents to Documents on Start Menu " check
box, and then click OK.

hth

Tony

"Norm 5080" wrote in message
...
I have office 2003 and my recently used file list (at the bottom of the

file
menu) has disappeared. Have gone to Tools/general/ and the option to

enable
and select the number of files to be shown is grayed out and unable to be
selected. Have this problem on both Excel 2003 and Word 2003. Might

also
exist on power point but I haven't been using that. Any help on how to

get
this option working again would be greatly appreciated.




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Old May 15th, 2004, 10:24 PM
Norman Epstein
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Default Recently used file list not available in Word 2003 and Excel 2003

Thanks...that did the job!!


 




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