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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS LIST
Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word,
Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS LIST
Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file
lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
The same problem started over the weekend where I lost my recent document
list in Word and Excel from Office 2007. My solution: In Word, click the Office button, click Word Options and click Advanced. Scroll down to the Display section. Enter the number of recent documents in the field. In my case, the number 17 appeared in the "Show this number of Recent Documents" field. I believe the problem is that Word could not display 17 recent documents so I changed the value to 5. I loaded and closed 5 separate documents, existed and re-launched Word. My 5 documents appeared in the Recent Documents. I shut down and rebooted my laptop, launched Word and sure enough my 5 documents were listed in Recent Documents. -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
Hello Stefan,
My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
17 is the number of recent documents specified by default for Word 2007
(earlier versions, as you may already know, supported a maximum of 9 recent files). It seems as if the factory default settings are being restored on a regular basis. It is, however, hard to tell *why* this is happening. Is something else, beside the recent documents, affected? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... Hello Stefan, My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
I checked Excel and PowerPoint and it looks like the same thing is happening
with these applications. My Outlook is configured to "Empty the Deleted Items Folder upon exiting" and I go into Internet Properties, click Delete - Preserve Favorites website data, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering Data options are all selected. All these settings were the same before this problem started. -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: 17 is the number of recent documents specified by default for Word 2007 (earlier versions, as you may already know, supported a maximum of 9 recent files). It seems as if the factory default settings are being restored on a regular basis. It is, however, hard to tell *why* this is happening. Is something else, beside the recent documents, affected? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... Hello Stefan, My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
Something is (obviously) doing this on your system. Did you install a new
application recently? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... I checked Excel and PowerPoint and it looks like the same thing is happening with these applications. My Outlook is configured to "Empty the Deleted Items Folder upon exiting" and I go into Internet Properties, click Delete - Preserve Favorites website data, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering Data options are all selected. All these settings were the same before this problem started. -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: 17 is the number of recent documents specified by default for Word 2007 (earlier versions, as you may already know, supported a maximum of 9 recent files). It seems as if the factory default settings are being restored on a regular basis. It is, however, hard to tell *why* this is happening. Is something else, beside the recent documents, affected? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... Hello Stefan, My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
I finally got around to checking my system in order to identify what has been
causing my recent Word documents to disappear from my system. I believe that I found the problem. I am using Trend Micro Internet Security - you can configure it to "Automatically the records of programs selected above whenever Trend Micro Internet Security starts". You can set the following options to be "cleanned" when Trend Micro starts, i.e. Media Players, Microsoft Office (it was enabled), Windows, Other Programs, Instant Messaging Programs and Web Browsers. I disabled Microsoft Office option last night, rebooted my laptop this morning and my recent documents are still there. Problem resolved (I hope). -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Something is (obviously) doing this on your system. Did you install a new application recently? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... I checked Excel and PowerPoint and it looks like the same thing is happening with these applications. My Outlook is configured to "Empty the Deleted Items Folder upon exiting" and I go into Internet Properties, click Delete - Preserve Favorites website data, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering Data options are all selected. All these settings were the same before this problem started. -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: 17 is the number of recent documents specified by default for Word 2007 (earlier versions, as you may already know, supported a maximum of 9 recent files). It seems as if the factory default settings are being restored on a regular basis. It is, however, hard to tell *why* this is happening. Is something else, beside the recent documents, affected? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... Hello Stefan, My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
Thanks for the feedback, Pierre. One more "protection" item to be aware of.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Pierre" wrote in message ... I finally got around to checking my system in order to identify what has been causing my recent Word documents to disappear from my system. I believe that I found the problem. I am using Trend Micro Internet Security - you can configure it to "Automatically the records of programs selected above whenever Trend Micro Internet Security starts". You can set the following options to be "cleanned" when Trend Micro starts, i.e. Media Players, Microsoft Office (it was enabled), Windows, Other Programs, Instant Messaging Programs and Web Browsers. I disabled Microsoft Office option last night, rebooted my laptop this morning and my recent documents are still there. Problem resolved (I hope). -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Something is (obviously) doing this on your system. Did you install a new application recently? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... I checked Excel and PowerPoint and it looks like the same thing is happening with these applications. My Outlook is configured to "Empty the Deleted Items Folder upon exiting" and I go into Internet Properties, click Delete - Preserve Favorites website data, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering Data options are all selected. All these settings were the same before this problem started. -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: 17 is the number of recent documents specified by default for Word 2007 (earlier versions, as you may already know, supported a maximum of 9 recent files). It seems as if the factory default settings are being restored on a regular basis. It is, however, hard to tell *why* this is happening. Is something else, beside the recent documents, affected? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... Hello Stefan, My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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OFFICE 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPOint) LOSING RECENT DOCUMENTS
You must remember that enabling or disabling this feature will affect all MS
Office applications - in other words you can't disable feature for a specific MS Office application and enable feature for others. -- Pierre "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Thanks for the feedback, Pierre. One more "protection" item to be aware of. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Pierre" wrote in message ... I finally got around to checking my system in order to identify what has been causing my recent Word documents to disappear from my system. I believe that I found the problem. I am using Trend Micro Internet Security - you can configure it to "Automatically the records of programs selected above whenever Trend Micro Internet Security starts". You can set the following options to be "cleanned" when Trend Micro starts, i.e. Media Players, Microsoft Office (it was enabled), Windows, Other Programs, Instant Messaging Programs and Web Browsers. I disabled Microsoft Office option last night, rebooted my laptop this morning and my recent documents are still there. Problem resolved (I hope). -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Something is (obviously) doing this on your system. Did you install a new application recently? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... I checked Excel and PowerPoint and it looks like the same thing is happening with these applications. My Outlook is configured to "Empty the Deleted Items Folder upon exiting" and I go into Internet Properties, click Delete - Preserve Favorites website data, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, Passwords, InPrivate Filtering Data options are all selected. All these settings were the same before this problem started. -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: 17 is the number of recent documents specified by default for Word 2007 (earlier versions, as you may already know, supported a maximum of 9 recent files). It seems as if the factory default settings are being restored on a regular basis. It is, however, hard to tell *why* this is happening. Is something else, beside the recent documents, affected? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Pierre" wrote in message ... Hello Stefan, My problem of disappearing Recent Documents is back again or should I say never left from Word 2007 (which I installed from Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 CD). In Word Options/Advanced/Display/Show this number of Recent Documents, the number 17 appears. I changed the number to 5, clicked OK to save and close the window. I edited 3 documents and saved them back to my HD and shut down my laptop. A few hours later, I logged into my laptop and did a Windows Update. I restarted my laptop, launched Word and no documents appeared in the Recent Document column. I checked Recent Documents and the number 5 which I entered earlier was replaced with number 17. Any ideas??? (where in the registry does the number you enter appear?) -- Pierre "Stefan Blom" wrote: Are you running one of those utilities that automatically clears recent file lists, the history, the Internet cache, and so forth? If so, that could be culprit here. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "jfguerra" wrote: Help! All of a sudden, I am losing all the Recent Documents lists from Word, Excel and PowerPoint in Office 2007. It happens when I shut down and reboot (which I do every day). It doesn't do it while I have my laptop on. I can use any of these apps, shut them down and bring them back up again and again and the Recent Documents list will continue to show the dos I opened / used. But once I shut down my machine, they are erased from the Recent Documents list. I have already checked the settings on each of the apps (e.g. Excel, Excel Options, Advanced, Show this number of Recent Documents) and it's not set to zero. Any suggestions? Did some recent update from MS screw this up? Thanks for any advice or guidance. |
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