Re: Recently viewed documents

Gentlemen:
With thanks to the Tech Support staff at Smart Computing magazine, I simply
went to Control panel/Add-remove/Change and then repaired the Office
installation using the "Repair" command. All is back to normal. They also
recommended downloading SP2 which i did and the world is right again.

"DanL" wrote:

Well, the tweaker just worked for a day, keeping the recently used files.
This morning all my Office 2007 apps were again blank for this feature, SO NO
JOY FOR MY UNTWEAKING IDEA.

I will next try Jay's registry idea expressed above.

I'd sure like to know what caused this issue, as the problem didn't exist
until 2 weeks ago or so.

"DanL" wrote:

Gregg:
I did a search and found this site.
http://www.winvistaclub.com/Ultimate_Windows_Tweaker.html
I figured if something tweaked my settings, I should untweak them (at the
risk of sounding too technical <g>). This installed without problem on my
Vista machine and seemingly allowed me to re-set the command to show my
recent documents. It also has some other neat tweaks and is free. So far,
it's working. I'll test it for a day or two and will post any negative
results.

Hope this helps?


"Gregg M" wrote:



"Jay Freedman" wrote:

If you've used TweakUI or a similar hack to turn off the Recent Documents list
in the Windows Start menu, that also affects the Office lists. See
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=284896.

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may benefit.

Thanks, Jay. I also don't have TweakUI, like DanL. I would also like to
hear if there are any other options.
Thanks again.
Gregg M
On Sat, 9 May 2009 09:29:01 -0700, Gregg M <Gregg M@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi, I recently downloaded Office Home and Student 2007 on my two computers
(identical). No problem with the first one, however on the second computer,
Word will not generate a list of recently viewed documents. When I go to
Word Options - Advanced - Display, the option for Recently Viewed Documents
is grayed out, and the "I" for Information says this has been disabled by the
Administrator. I am the Administrator, and trust me, I did not disable this
option.

The question I have now is, is there a simple way to enable this option?

Thank you very much

.

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