[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you keep reminding me of this often enough, it may actually make it to
the active part of my brain!

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Words into Type
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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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The macro at http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Recent_Files_List_Editor.htm still
works with 2007 to edit the recent file list.

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Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
Yep. In 2007, you can zap all of them at once by resetting the list
to 0, but they can't be zapped individually. And deleting the actual
file has no effect on the Recent Files listing.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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The problem, of course, is that, even if you delete the files, the
shortcuts
remain. In previous versions, you could use Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen to zap
them; Word 2007 doesn't provide any comparable feature.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
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Ah. Well, that's different. Do you want to actually delete those
files? Or, do you want to delete the shortcuts that appear in the
Recent Documents list? Deleting the shortcuts doesn't delete the
files--it merely removes them from that list.

Unlike in Word 2003 and earlier, there is no way to remove
individual files from the list. You can remove the files listed by
setting the number to display to 0, then setting it back to the
desired number. Office - Word Options - Advanced - Display
subsection, set "Show this number of Recent Documents" to 0. That
will remove all of them from the list. If you want to keep some on the
list, but ditch the rest, click the
the push-pins for the ones you want to keep, then set the "Show
this number..." to the number of files with push-pins set. So, if
you click the push-pins for 5 files, then reset the number to show
to 5, then all files except for
those 5 will be removed from the list.

Unfortunately... if you then reset the number to some number above
5, the removed items will reappear. The only way I've found to make
them go away and don't return (until the next time you open them
with the # set above 0) is to set the list to 0.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"Silverado" wrote in message
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i 'm sorry i'm not doing this right but i will get it right. i use
xp-sp2
with office 2007 and when i click on the MS office button i get a
list of recent documents. i would like to delete some of them

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

Can you describe what you're doing and what happens? As long as a
file is not open or otherwise protected against deletion/change,
you should have no
problem deleting it either from any of the File dialogs in Word,
or using Windows Explorer.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
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"Silverado" wrote in message
news i need to delete files that i create in word 2007. i've tried
evrything i
can. any help out there?