“Recently used file list” grayed out on Word

14 Responses to ““Recently used file list” grayed out on Word”

1. dan, on January 6th, 2006 at 10:18 am Said:

   Thanks for the tip; I couldn’t find the option in Tweak.UI, but changing the registry key worked for me.

   -Dan

 

2. Allen, on January 24th, 2006 at 9:36 am Said:

   Thanks. This information allowed us to get a user back in his “happy” place in no time.

   I made the change via REGEDIT.

 

3. Mike, on May 8th, 2006 at 10:54 pm Said:

   Great fix. Ended a very frustrating time for me

 

4. jose T., on May 24th, 2006 at 11:44 am Said:

   thanks a lot.this ended the user frustration,which became my frustration as well.i made the change using regedit.

 

5. Ken, on June 12th, 2006 at 2:17 pm Said:

   Dude… My first hit on Google and you had the fix. Used regedit. As anyone who has searched MS for help knows you can spend a lot of time looking and get “knowwhere”. Thanks for the great tip.
   Ken

 

6. Mauro, on June 30th, 2006 at 10:04 am Said:

   Great fix, it took me like 45 seconds to correct… is that slow???

 

7. Anonymous, on July 9th, 2006 at 4:35 pm Said:

   worked for me. is there any way to show more than 9 items ?

 

8. Marcel Claxton, on August 5th, 2006 at 6:45 am Said:

   Unbelievable isn’t it? I too got the answer (regedit) right away, but isn’t it also sad that so many people have to look for a solution to something that Microsoft could have solved in the first place? I mean, why remove functionality from a program that users actually DO find useful? Instead they should get rid of that horrible auto formatting that occurs when you don’t want it to (especially with inserting pictures or tables).

 

9. ZoltanZ, on August 12th, 2006 at 2:54 am Said:

   >> you should change the value of “Add new documents to Documents on Start Menu” in TweakUI.

   Thanks for the tip. However, in the current version of TweakUI, (2.10), the option you need to change is “Maintain Document History,” under “Explorer.” This will be safer for most folks than messing with the registry.

   If you don’t have TweakUI it’s a free download here.

   Thanks very much for posting this fix.

   Z
   

 

10. jb, on February 8th, 2007 at 4:43 am Said:

    thanks so much - an awesome, quick, “no BS” solution to a computer problem (which is hard to find these days).. Came in very handy - much appreciated!!

 

11. Anonymous, on February 27th, 2007 at 5:28 pm Said:

    Thanks very much for this fix. I, too, searched MS in vain for an answer. I used the regedit to fix this problem, and found your solution via google at the top of the search list.

 

12. jtiggr, on March 18th, 2007 at 3:04 pm Said:

    Many thanks for the NoRecentDocsHistory” to O tip above. I’d been driven in circles trying to resolve the issue and had removed TweakUI to fix it. Of course, that didn’t work. But REGEDIT did the trick.

    I also see “NoRecentDocsMenu”
    (actually that was my original problem). I’ve set that to O also, and now have my “recent docs menu” back in Excel.

 

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14. Rich, on May 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am Said:

    Great fix, and after a long, frustrating search… I am curious though, as to why that setting changed? I use WORD daily and this was the first time I ran into that…

    Can someone acidentally change that setting with unintentional key strokes?

    Thanks again!

 

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