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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't
always show. For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? Or is this a known issue? Thanks! |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
If you are showing 20 documents in the list and you have worked with 20
documents other that the five since last working with them, then it is those 20 documents that will appear in the list. If you use a macro to open documents and to save new documents, you can then set the AddtoRecentFiles attribute to False. There is no way of doing that via the user interface however. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? Or is this a known issue? Thanks! |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
If you are showing 20 documents in the list and you have worked with 20
documents other that the five since last working with them, then it is those 20 documents that will appear in the list. If you use a macro to open documents and to save new documents, you can then set the AddtoRecentFiles attribute to False. There is no way of doing that via the user interface however. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? Or is this a known issue? Thanks! |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
If 5 documents are pinned, then only her last 15 documents should be
in the list, above the pinned ones (unless the pinned ones have been used more recently, in which case they're interspersed in the list). That's how my list works. On Mar 17, 8:33*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: If you are showing 20 documents in the list and you have worked with 20 documents other that the five since last working with them, then it is those 20 documents that will appear in the list. If you use a macro to open documents and to save new documents, you can then set the AddtoRecentFiles attribute to False. *There is no way of doing that via the user interface however. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. *For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? *Or is this a known issue? Thanks!- |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
If 5 documents are pinned, then only her last 15 documents should be
in the list, above the pinned ones (unless the pinned ones have been used more recently, in which case they're interspersed in the list). That's how my list works. On Mar 17, 8:33*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: If you are showing 20 documents in the list and you have worked with 20 documents other that the five since last working with them, then it is those 20 documents that will appear in the list. If you use a macro to open documents and to save new documents, you can then set the AddtoRecentFiles attribute to False. *There is no way of doing that via the user interface however. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. *For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? *Or is this a known issue? Thanks!- |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
As far as I know, there is no setting that controls this, nor is it a known issue, although I have seen occasional reports of it. A couple of (unlikely) possibilities spring to mind: Do pinned documents drop off the list while you are working in Word, or do they just not appear next time? If the latter case, you may have some corporate setting overriding your wishes. Are you running any AddIns that might interfere with the environment? Lastly, you might have some corruption somewhere - possibly in the Word Data key (although MRU documents are not stored there in Word 2007). -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? Or is this a known issue? Thanks! |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
My guess is a minor corruption of the Word data key in the registry leading
to a miscounting of the displayed items. The list is stored at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\File MRU FWIW the following macro will clear the recent files list, leaving the pinned items 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 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 "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? Or is this a known issue? Thanks! |
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Word 2007-Pinning documents to most recent list
My guess is a minor corruption of the Word data key in the registry leading
to a miscounting of the displayed items. The list is stored at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\File MRU FWIW the following macro will clear the recent files list, leaving the pinned items 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 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 "RainCityChick" wrote in message news I've pinned several documents to my most recent documents list but they don't always show. For example, I have about 5 documents that I have pinned and I'm showing 20 new documents when I click the Office button in Word. If I have worked recently with 25 or 30 documents, but not one of the 5 that are pinned, then the most recent 20 show, and that list doesn't always include the 5 that are pinned. Do I have a setting wrong somewhere? Or is this a known issue? Thanks! |
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