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In WORD, when one selects "files" from the menu the last four (4) documents are displayed. Is there a way to change this default to, say, six (6) documents. I know that Word Perfect does. Any advice? Uzi,.12/10/09 |
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Go to Tools Options, General, change the "Recently used file list" from 4 to
9 (max). This is for 2003 and prior. 2007 Microsoft Office Button to display the Office menu, General, I believe you can a greater number on show. Hope this helps DeanH "uzidengineer" wrote: Hi, In WORD, when one selects "files" from the menu the last four (4) documents are displayed. Is there a way to change this default to, say, six (6) documents. I know that Word Perfect does. Any advice? Uzi,.12/10/09 . |
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In Word 2007 onwards you can increase it to 50 - but check that you can see
50 on screen: if not, reduce it to the maximum that can fit, otherwise it is a bit of a waste of time. Note that you can PIN up to 10 documents on the MRU so that they stay resident at the top of the list. Note that in Windows 7, the top 10 MRU files can be seen if you right-click the Word icon in the Taskbar, so you can launch straight into a current document. This is useful if say you are currently working on several document which you have pinned to the MRU. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "uzidengineer" wrote in message ... Hi, In WORD, when one selects "files" from the menu the last four (4) documents are displayed. Is there a way to change this default to, say, six (6) documents. I know that Word Perfect does. Any advice? Uzi,.12/10/09 |
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I'm using Word 2007. The documents I pin are not staying at the top of the
list, they are mixed in with other documents I have opened. I have it set to save the last 20 documents in my list. They don't fall off the list if they get to the bottom, they just aren't staying resident at the top as you state. Is there another setting I'm missing to make the pinned documents stay at the top, 1 thru 10? "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... In Word 2007 onwards you can increase it to 50 - but check that you can see 50 on screen: if not, reduce it to the maximum that can fit, otherwise it is a bit of a waste of time. Note that you can PIN up to 10 documents on the MRU so that they stay resident at the top of the list. Note that in Windows 7, the top 10 MRU files can be seen if you right-click the Word icon in the Taskbar, so you can launch straight into a current document. This is useful if say you are currently working on several document which you have pinned to the MRU. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "uzidengineer" wrote in message ... Hi, In WORD, when one selects "files" from the menu the last four (4) documents are displayed. Is there a way to change this default to, say, six (6) documents. I know that Word Perfect does. Any advice? Uzi,.12/10/09 |
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Pinned documents simply remain in the lost rather than drop off at the
bottom. They are not sorted. There is no built-in function to move the pinned items to the top of the list but it can be done using a macro to read and write the revised registry entries. The problem with that is that Word must be closed and re-opened to read the registry changes. The following macro will do all that, but re-opening Word will have to be done manually, if the macro is run from Word, as the macro stops when Word is closed. Ensure that you save the normal template with the macro *before* running it, or the normal template will become the new first item in the list, whether or not it is pinned. The macro first closes any open documents (giving the opportunity to save) reads the registry entries associated with the recent file list and writes them to a temporary document before deleting them from the list. That document is sorted to put the pinned items first. The registry entries are then re-written in the new order, the temporary document is closed and Word is closed. When Word is re-opened the recent file list reflects the new order from the registry. Sub SortRecentFileList() Dim oDoc As Document Dim rNewKey As Range Dim rFile As RecentFile Dim i As Long Dim WSHShell, RegKey, rKeyWord If Documents.Count 0 Then Documents.Close SaveChanges:=wdPromptToSaveChanges End If Set oDoc = Documents.Add Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") RegKey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ Word\File MRU\" For Each rFile In RecentFiles rKeyWord = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & "Item " & rFile.Index) oDoc.Range.InsertAfter rKeyWord & vbCr rFile.Delete Next rFile With oDoc .Paragraphs.Last.Range.Delete .Range.Sort ExcludeHeader:=False, _ FieldNumber:="Paragraphs", _ SortFieldType:=wdSortFieldAlphanumeric, _ SortOrder:=wdSortOrderDescending For i = 1 To .Paragraphs.Count Set rNewKey = .Paragraphs(i).Range rNewKey.End = rNewKey.End - 1 WSHShell.RegWrite RegKey & "Item " & i, rNewKey.Text Next i .Close wdDoNotSaveChanges End With Application.Quit End Sub You might find it more useful to simply delete the unpinned items from the list. The following macro does that and does not require Word to be restarted: Sub ClearUnpinned() 'Clear recent file list leaving the pinned items Dim rFile As RecentFile Dim WSHShell, RegKey, rKeyWord Set WSHShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") RegKey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\ Word\File MRU\" For Each rFile In RecentFiles rKeyWord = WSHShell.RegRead(RegKey & "Item " & rFile.Index) Select Case Mid(rKeyWord, 10, 1) Case Is = 0, 2 rFile.Delete End Select Next rFile MsgBox "Recent file list is cleared," & vbCr & _ "retaining the pinned items", _ vbInformation, _ "Clear Recent File List" End Sub 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 -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "DG" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2007. The documents I pin are not staying at the top of the list, they are mixed in with other documents I have opened. I have it set to save the last 20 documents in my list. They don't fall off the list if they get to the bottom, they just aren't staying resident at the top as you state. Is there another setting I'm missing to make the pinned documents stay at the top, 1 thru 10? "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... In Word 2007 onwards you can increase it to 50 - but check that you can see 50 on screen: if not, reduce it to the maximum that can fit, otherwise it is a bit of a waste of time. Note that you can PIN up to 10 documents on the MRU so that they stay resident at the top of the list. Note that in Windows 7, the top 10 MRU files can be seen if you right-click the Word icon in the Taskbar, so you can launch straight into a current document. This is useful if say you are currently working on several document which you have pinned to the MRU. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "uzidengineer" wrote in message ... Hi, In WORD, when one selects "files" from the menu the last four (4) documents are displayed. Is there a way to change this default to, say, six (6) documents. I know that Word Perfect does. Any advice? Uzi,.12/10/09 |
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Let me clarify.
If you pin a document to the MRU in WORD, it stays in the Word MRU in a top section of the MRU with other pinned documents. The MRU in the Word Icon in the Taskbar is a DIFFERENT MRU - called a Jump List in Win 7. The pinning has to be done in the jump list. So you can pin different documents in the Jump list than on the Word MRU. In Taskbar PropertiesStart Menu tabCustomise button, you can adjust the number of items remembered in the Jump List. Sorry about the previous inaccurate description. Terry "DG" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2007. The documents I pin are not staying at the top of the list, they are mixed in with other documents I have opened. I have it set to save the last 20 documents in my list. They don't fall off the list if they get to the bottom, they just aren't staying resident at the top as you state. Is there another setting I'm missing to make the pinned documents stay at the top, 1 thru 10? "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... In Word 2007 onwards you can increase it to 50 - but check that you can see 50 on screen: if not, reduce it to the maximum that can fit, otherwise it is a bit of a waste of time. Note that you can PIN up to 10 documents on the MRU so that they stay resident at the top of the list. Note that in Windows 7, the top 10 MRU files can be seen if you right-click the Word icon in the Taskbar, so you can launch straight into a current document. This is useful if say you are currently working on several document which you have pinned to the MRU. -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "uzidengineer" wrote in message ... Hi, In WORD, when one selects "files" from the menu the last four (4) documents are displayed. Is there a way to change this default to, say, six (6) documents. I know that Word Perfect does. Any advice? Uzi,.12/10/09 |
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