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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003
Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
I don't think this can be done through Tools | Customize, which doesn't have
a "command" listed for it. Resetting the menu might help. If the setting were disabled in Options, I'd suspect TweakUI or the like, but since you can apparently change that setting, that isn't the issue. Have you tried rebooting Windows or at least restarting Word? If even that doesn't help, then perhaps your Registry needs a nudge; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003 Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
Suzanne, before you posted your response, I decided to
repair my copy of Word using the Word 2003 disc. The repair ran fine and I rebooted. After re-launching Word, could detect no changes to Word. Still no recently used file list. Created a couple of test Word documents and saved them as Test1 and Test2. Closed Word and then re-launched it. The files Test1 and Test2 appear at the bottom of the File menu, directly above Exit. That wasn't the case before the repair action. Must be losing my mind. Could have sworn that there was a "Recently Used" entry under the File menu, which consisted of a drop down list of recently used files. May be thinking of another app such as Photoshop but am almost certain I saw it in Word, too. Will check out the registry link you provided. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't think this can be done through Tools | Customize, which doesn't have a "command" listed for it. Resetting the menu might help. If the setting were disabled in Options, I'd suspect TweakUI or the like, but since you can apparently change that setting, that isn't the issue. Have you tried rebooting Windows or at least restarting Word? If even that doesn't help, then perhaps your Registry needs a nudge; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003 Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
As per the referenced MVP link, I deleted the Word settings
entry in Office 11 Word. Made no difference. Checked Tweak-UI and it has no entry under IE for saving files to previously used links. I must be imagining that File menu had a recently used entry. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Suzanne, before you posted your response, I decided to repair my copy of Word using the Word 2003 disc. The repair ran fine and I rebooted. After re-launching Word, could detect no changes to Word. Still no recently used file list. Created a couple of test Word documents and saved them as Test1 and Test2. Closed Word and then re-launched it. The files Test1 and Test2 appear at the bottom of the File menu, directly above Exit. That wasn't the case before the repair action. Must be losing my mind. Could have sworn that there was a "Recently Used" entry under the File menu, which consisted of a drop down list of recently used files. May be thinking of another app such as Photoshop but am almost certain I saw it in Word, too. Will check out the registry link you provided. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't think this can be done through Tools | Customize, which doesn't have a "command" listed for it. Resetting the menu might help. If the setting were disabled in Options, I'd suspect TweakUI or the like, but since you can apparently change that setting, that isn't the issue. Have you tried rebooting Windows or at least restarting Word? If even that doesn't help, then perhaps your Registry needs a nudge; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003 Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
There is such a list in the Start menu. In Word, you can append MRU list to
the end of the File menu. Tools Options General You can also add a Work menu for frequently used documents. http://addbalance.com/word/workmenu.htm -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Suzanne, before you posted your response, I decided to repair my copy of Word using the Word 2003 disc. The repair ran fine and I rebooted. After re-launching Word, could detect no changes to Word. Still no recently used file list. Created a couple of test Word documents and saved them as Test1 and Test2. Closed Word and then re-launched it. The files Test1 and Test2 appear at the bottom of the File menu, directly above Exit. That wasn't the case before the repair action. Must be losing my mind. Could have sworn that there was a "Recently Used" entry under the File menu, which consisted of a drop down list of recently used files. May be thinking of another app such as Photoshop but am almost certain I saw it in Word, too. Will check out the registry link you provided. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't think this can be done through Tools | Customize, which doesn't have a "command" listed for it. Resetting the menu might help. If the setting were disabled in Options, I'd suspect TweakUI or the like, but since you can apparently change that setting, that isn't the issue. Have you tried rebooting Windows or at least restarting Word? If even that doesn't help, then perhaps your Registry needs a nudge; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003 Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
There is definitely an MRU list at the foot of the File menu (above Exit),
just no way to replace this using Tools | Customize, as there's no entry for it. In fact, if you drop the File menu while Customize is open, you see "(List of Recently Used Files)" rather than the actual current list. I can't account for your loss of it; I don't have TweakUI, but I know there's a setting to suppress the MRU list on the Start menu, and this affects Word as well, but it has the secondary effect of disabling the MRU settings in Tools | Options | General, which you don't seem to be experiencing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Suzanne, before you posted your response, I decided to repair my copy of Word using the Word 2003 disc. The repair ran fine and I rebooted. After re-launching Word, could detect no changes to Word. Still no recently used file list. Created a couple of test Word documents and saved them as Test1 and Test2. Closed Word and then re-launched it. The files Test1 and Test2 appear at the bottom of the File menu, directly above Exit. That wasn't the case before the repair action. Must be losing my mind. Could have sworn that there was a "Recently Used" entry under the File menu, which consisted of a drop down list of recently used files. May be thinking of another app such as Photoshop but am almost certain I saw it in Word, too. Will check out the registry link you provided. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't think this can be done through Tools | Customize, which doesn't have a "command" listed for it. Resetting the menu might help. If the setting were disabled in Options, I'd suspect TweakUI or the like, but since you can apparently change that setting, that isn't the issue. Have you tried rebooting Windows or at least restarting Word? If even that doesn't help, then perhaps your Registry needs a nudge; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003 Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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Lost Recently Used File List in File Menu
I had the same problem, but it didn't start until I upgraded to Office 2003.
Reading your post I looked at Tweak and under Explorer, you have to check mark "Maintain document history" to get the "Recently used file list" to work. I now have my recently used file lists back. Yea! I just posted today with my problem. I've never used this Discussion Group thing before, wished I had. Tweak is a great tool...but you have to be careful, as I've found out before. Carmen "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There is definitely an MRU list at the foot of the File menu (above Exit), just no way to replace this using Tools | Customize, as there's no entry for it. In fact, if you drop the File menu while Customize is open, you see "(List of Recently Used Files)" rather than the actual current list. I can't account for your loss of it; I don't have TweakUI, but I know there's a setting to suppress the MRU list on the Start menu, and this affects Word as well, but it has the secondary effect of disabling the MRU settings in Tools | Options | General, which you don't seem to be experiencing. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Suzanne, before you posted your response, I decided to repair my copy of Word using the Word 2003 disc. The repair ran fine and I rebooted. After re-launching Word, could detect no changes to Word. Still no recently used file list. Created a couple of test Word documents and saved them as Test1 and Test2. Closed Word and then re-launched it. The files Test1 and Test2 appear at the bottom of the File menu, directly above Exit. That wasn't the case before the repair action. Must be losing my mind. Could have sworn that there was a "Recently Used" entry under the File menu, which consisted of a drop down list of recently used files. May be thinking of another app such as Photoshop but am almost certain I saw it in Word, too. Will check out the registry link you provided. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I don't think this can be done through Tools | Customize, which doesn't have a "command" listed for it. Resetting the menu might help. If the setting were disabled in Options, I'd suspect TweakUI or the like, but since you can apparently change that setting, that isn't the issue. Have you tried rebooting Windows or at least restarting Word? If even that doesn't help, then perhaps your Registry needs a nudge; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Uncle Joe" wrote in message ... Hi. Windows XP Home, Pentium 4, 1 GB, Word 2003 Realized with a start today that the "Recently Used File List" option has disappeared from File Menu. I depend heavily on it. Double checked Tools Options General and the "Recently Used File List" option is enabled and 9 files are specified in the list box. Manually opened a couple of existing Word documents, slightly modified them, saved them, and Closed Word. Reopened Word hoping to see the Recently Used File List had reappeared, and would show the two documents in the list. No joy! Darn. Any ideas on how to reclaim this valuable File List option Thank you. |
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