If you want to delete them all then set tools options general recently
used files to 0, confirm the change, then change it back to the number it
was previously.
See also
http://www.gmayor.com/clear_recently_used_file_list.htm
If you want to selectively delete, then it gets altogether more complicated,
but friend and fellow MVP Greg Maxey has done all the work - see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Recent_Files_List_Editor.htm
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"SusanBranson" wrote in message
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When you open word, there is a recent document list that appears - how do
I
delete items from it