[danooch13]

Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened documents. When
I first started up word, I noticed the list of recently opened documents was
not in the file menu. After looking up how to turn on that setting I thought
I was good. I turned it on, did some work, and saw the documents in the
recent list. I closed Word and went home for the day. The next day I came
back, I opened word and looked for the recent list under the file menu, and
it was gone. So, I went back the the options menu to check if the checkbox
was still checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited word, came
back and the recent list was still not there, I went back to look at the
checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again. Everytime I exit word and go back
in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas how to fix
it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[Graham Mayor]

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data key in the
registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT support). If you have
write access to your own personal normal.dot file (as you should) then add
the following lines to both an autoopen and an autonew macro saved in
normal.dot. It won't repair the registry but it will fix the issue with each
document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After looking up
how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I turned it on,
did some work, and saw the documents in the recent list. I closed
Word and went home for the day. The next day I came back, I opened
word and looked for the recent list under the file menu, and it was
gone. So, I went back the the options menu to check if the checkbox
was still checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited
word, came back and the recent list was still not there, I went back
to look at the checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again. Everytime I
exit word and go back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas how
to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[danooch13]

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I just
couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday when I am back at
that office location and let you know how it went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data key in the
registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT support). If you have
write access to your own personal normal.dot file (as you should) then add
the following lines to both an autoopen and an autonew macro saved in
normal.dot. It won't repair the registry but it will fix the issue with each
document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After looking up
how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I turned it on,
did some work, and saw the documents in the recent list. I closed
Word and went home for the day. The next day I came back, I opened
word and looked for the recent list under the file menu, and it was
gone. So, I went back the the options menu to check if the checkbox
was still checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited
word, came back and the recent list was still not there, I went back
to look at the checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again. Everytime I
exit word and go back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas how
to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[danooch13]

Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the normal.dot file,
but it did not seem to work. I did not notice the check go in the checkbox
for recently opened documents, in the options menu. Is there anyway you can
be a little more descriptive for me in creating this macro. I am definetly
doing it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I just
couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday when I am back at
that office location and let you know how it went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data key in the
registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT support). If you have
write access to your own personal normal.dot file (as you should) then add
the following lines to both an autoopen and an autonew macro saved in
normal.dot. It won't repair the registry but it will fix the issue with each
document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After looking up
how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I turned it on,
did some work, and saw the documents in the recent list. I closed
Word and went home for the day. The next day I came back, I opened
word and looked for the recent list under the file menu, and it was
gone. So, I went back the the options menu to check if the checkbox
was still checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited
word, came back and the recent list was still not there, I went back
to look at the checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again. Everytime I
exit word and go back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas how
to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[Graham Mayor]

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier i.e.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice the
check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in the
options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more descriptive
for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I just
couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday when I am
back at that office location and let you know how it went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data
key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT
support). If you have write access to your own personal normal.dot
file (as you should) then add the following lines to both an
autoopen and an autonew macro saved in normal.dot. It won't repair
the registry but it will fix the issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After looking
up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I turned it
on, did some work, and saw the documents in the recent list. I
closed Word and went home for the day. The next day I came back,
I opened word and looked for the recent list under the file menu,
and it was gone. So, I went back the the options menu to check if
the checkbox was still checked, and it was not. I checked it
again and exited word, came back and the recent list was still not
there, I went back to look at the checkbox, and saw it was
unchecked again. Everytime I exit word and go back in it unchecks
the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas
how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[danooch13]

Ok. Got it to go, but still a problem. I am very familiar with VB code.
The code did just as expected with the events provided. It populated the
checkbox, and set the value to 9, but the list still does not show up under
the file menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier i.e.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice the
check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in the
options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more descriptive
for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I just
couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday when I am
back at that office location and let you know how it went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data
key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT
support). If you have write access to your own personal normal.dot
file (as you should) then add the following lines to both an
autoopen and an autonew macro saved in normal.dot. It won't repair
the registry but it will fix the issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After looking
up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I turned it
on, did some work, and saw the documents in the recent list. I
closed Word and went home for the day. The next day I came back,
I opened word and looked for the recent list under the file menu,
and it was gone. So, I went back the the options menu to check if
the checkbox was still checked, and it was not. I checked it
again and exited word, came back and the recent list was still not
there, I went back to look at the checkbox, and saw it was
unchecked again. Everytime I exit word and go back in it unchecks
the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas
how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[Graham Mayor]

If it has been switched off, the list will be cleared. It should now start
to grow as you open documents.
If it doesn't then there is probably some issue with the settings sub key of
the Word data key in the registry, which should be renamed or deleted to
reset i t- see http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm which shows
how to identify the data key

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Ok. Got it to go, but still a problem. I am very familiar with VB
code. The code did just as expected with the events provided. It
populated the checkbox, and set the value to 9, but the list still
does not show up under the file menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier i.e.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice the
check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in the
options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more descriptive
for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I
just couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday
when I am back at that office location and let you know how it
went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data
key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT
support). If you have write access to your own personal normal.dot
file (as you should) then add the following lines to both an
autoopen and an autonew macro saved in normal.dot. It won't repair
the registry but it will fix the issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After
looking up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I
turned it on, did some work, and saw the documents in the recent
list. I closed Word and went home for the day. The next day I
came back, I opened word and looked for the recent list under
the file menu, and it was gone. So, I went back the the options
menu to check if the checkbox was still checked, and it was not.
I checked it again and exited word, came back and the recent
list was still not there, I went back to look at the checkbox,
and saw it was unchecked again. Everytime I exit word and go
back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas
how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[danooch13]

Graham,

First thank you for all your help! I am still experiencing the problem
though. A full reinstall of office will not fix the problem? I deleted the
data subkey, and restarted word. I proceeded to check the box to in options,
and set the value to 5. After that I clicked ok and closed word to see if
the checkbox would remain checked. Upon loading word again, I went back to
see if the box was still checked, and it was not. It seems to always lose
that setting.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If it has been switched off, the list will be cleared. It should now start
to grow as you open documents.
If it doesn't then there is probably some issue with the settings sub key of
the Word data key in the registry, which should be renamed or deleted to
reset i t- see http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm which shows
how to identify the data key

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Ok. Got it to go, but still a problem. I am very familiar with VB
code. The code did just as expected with the events provided. It
populated the checkbox, and set the value to 9, but the list still
does not show up under the file menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier i.e.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice the
check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in the
options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more descriptive
for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I
just couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday
when I am back at that office location and let you know how it
went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word data
key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your company IT
support). If you have write access to your own personal normal.dot
file (as you should) then add the following lines to both an
autoopen and an autonew macro saved in normal.dot. It won't repair
the registry but it will fix the issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After
looking up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I
turned it on, did some work, and saw the documents in the recent
list. I closed Word and went home for the day. The next day I
came back, I opened word and looked for the recent list under
the file menu, and it was gone. So, I went back the the options
menu to check if the checkbox was still checked, and it was not.
I checked it again and exited word, came back and the recent
list was still not there, I went back to look at the checkbox,
and saw it was unchecked again. Everytime I exit word and go
back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any ideas
how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[Graham Mayor]

Do you have any add-ins that may interfere -
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm
Is this PC on a company network that may have some setting that is
preventing you from maintaining personalisations?
These aside I am out of ideas.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

First thank you for all your help! I am still experiencing the
problem though. A full reinstall of office will not fix the problem?
I deleted the data subkey, and restarted word. I proceeded to check
the box to in options, and set the value to 5. After that I clicked
ok and closed word to see if the checkbox would remain checked. Upon
loading word again, I went back to see if the box was still checked,
and it was not. It seems to always lose that setting.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If it has been switched off, the list will be cleared. It should now
start to grow as you open documents.
If it doesn't then there is probably some issue with the settings
sub key of the Word data key in the registry, which should be
renamed or deleted to reset i t- see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm which shows how to
identify the data key

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Ok. Got it to go, but still a problem. I am very familiar with VB
code. The code did just as expected with the events provided. It
populated the checkbox, and set the value to 9, but the list still
does not show up under the file menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier i.e.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice
the check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in the
options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more
descriptive for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing
it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I
just couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday
when I am back at that office location and let you know how it
went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word
data key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your
company IT support). If you have write access to your own
personal normal.dot file (as you should) then add the following
lines to both an autoopen and an autonew macro saved in
normal.dot. It won't repair the registry but it will fix the
issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After
looking up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I
turned it on, did some work, and saw the documents in the
recent list. I closed Word and went home for the day. The
next day I came back, I opened word and looked for the recent
list under the file menu, and it was gone. So, I went back
the the options menu to check if the checkbox was still
checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited word,
came back and the recent list was still not there, I went back
to look at the checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again.
Everytime I exit word and go back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any
ideas how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[danooch13]

Nope no addins. Thanks anyway though. You don't think reinstalling office
will fix the problem? If not then, then the user is out of luck. Too bad.
I am in the IT department, and I guess I'll just have to tell her it can't be
fixed, unless I re-ghost her machine, which I know she will not do. Thanks
though, creates less work for me LOL.

Thanks again!

Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Do you have any add-ins that may interfere -
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm
Is this PC on a company network that may have some setting that is
preventing you from maintaining personalisations?
These aside I am out of ideas.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

First thank you for all your help! I am still experiencing the
problem though. A full reinstall of office will not fix the problem?
I deleted the data subkey, and restarted word. I proceeded to check
the box to in options, and set the value to 5. After that I clicked
ok and closed word to see if the checkbox would remain checked. Upon
loading word again, I went back to see if the box was still checked,
and it was not. It seems to always lose that setting.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If it has been switched off, the list will be cleared. It should now
start to grow as you open documents.
If it doesn't then there is probably some issue with the settings
sub key of the Word data key in the registry, which should be
renamed or deleted to reset i t- see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm which shows how to
identify the data key

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Ok. Got it to go, but still a problem. I am very familiar with VB
code. The code did just as expected with the events provided. It
populated the checkbox, and set the value to 9, but the list still
does not show up under the file menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier i.e.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice
the check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in the
options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more
descriptive for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing
it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company, I
just couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on Friday
when I am back at that office location and let you know how it
went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word
data key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your
company IT support). If you have write access to your own
personal normal.dot file (as you should) then add the following
lines to both an autoopen and an autonew macro saved in
normal.dot. It won't repair the registry but it will fix the
issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list of
recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After
looking up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good. I
turned it on, did some work, and saw the documents in the
recent list. I closed Word and went home for the day. The
next day I came back, I opened word and looked for the recent
list under the file menu, and it was gone. So, I went back
the the options menu to check if the checkbox was still
checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited word,
came back and the recent list was still not there, I went back
to look at the checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again.
Everytime I exit word and go back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any
ideas how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony

[Graham Mayor]

Re-installing never appears to fix anything that a simple repair of office
will not fix. The problems are invariably from outside influences. As a
final cast of the dice - see
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm

Utilities such as TweakUI can also screw up essential registry entries.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Nope no addins. Thanks anyway though. You don't think reinstalling
office will fix the problem? If not then, then the user is out of
luck. Too bad. I am in the IT department, and I guess I'll just have
to tell her it can't be fixed, unless I re-ghost her machine, which I
know she will not do. Thanks though, creates less work for me LOL.

Thanks again!

Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Do you have any add-ins that may interfere -
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm
Is this PC on a company network that may have some setting that is
preventing you from maintaining personalisations?
These aside I am out of ideas.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

First thank you for all your help! I am still experiencing the
problem though. A full reinstall of office will not fix the
problem? I deleted the data subkey, and restarted word. I
proceeded to check the box to in options, and set the value to 5.
After that I clicked ok and closed word to see if the checkbox
would remain checked. Upon loading word again, I went back to see
if the box was still checked, and it was not. It seems to always
lose that setting.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

If it has been switched off, the list will be cleared. It should
now start to grow as you open documents.
If it doesn't then there is probably some issue with the settings
sub key of the Word data key in the registry, which should be
renamed or deleted to reset i t- see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm which shows how
to identify the data key

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Ok. Got it to go, but still a problem. I am very familiar with
VB code. The code did just as expected with the events provided.
It populated the checkbox, and set the value to 9, but the list
still does not show up under the file menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You don't need two modules - you need two macros

Sub AutoOpen()
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub
Sub AutoNew
Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9
End Sub

The use of auto macros is covered in the link I posted earlier
i.e. http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Graham,

I am having trouble doing this. I added two modules to the
normal.dot file, but it did not seem to work. I did not notice
the check go in the checkbox for recently opened documents, in
the options menu. Is there anyway you can be a little more
descriptive for me in creating this macro. I am definetly doing
it wrong.

Thanks,
Anthony

"danooch13" wrote:

Graham,

Thank you very much! I am in the IT department of my company,
I just couldn't figure out a solution. I will try this on
Friday when I am back at that office location and let you know
how it went.

Thanks again,
Anthony

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

This is usually indicative of a minor corruption of the Word
data key in the registry (or a deliberate policy by your
company IT support). If you have write access to your own
personal normal.dot file (as you should) then add the
following lines to both an autoopen and an autonew macro
saved in normal.dot. It won't repair the registry but it will
fix the issue with each document.

Application.DisplayRecentFiles = True
RecentFiles.Maximum = 9

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


danooch13 wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem with my Word 2003 and recently opened
documents. When I first started up word, I noticed the list
of recently opened documents was not in the file menu. After
looking up how to turn on that setting I thought I was good.
I turned it on, did some work, and saw the documents in the
recent list. I closed Word and went home for the day. The
next day I came back, I opened word and looked for the recent
list under the file menu, and it was gone. So, I went back
the the options menu to check if the checkbox was still
checked, and it was not. I checked it again and exited word,
came back and the recent list was still not there, I went
back to look at the checkbox, and saw it was unchecked again.
Everytime I exit word and go back in it unchecks the box.

Any ideas as to why I am experiencing this problem, and any
ideas how to fix it?

Thanks,
Anthony