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MS Word

Sep 19, 2010 1:24AM PDT

I am using Vista with Office Home & Student 2007. When you go into word then to home then under recent documents how do you remove a document that you no longer want??

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Re: MS Word
Sep 19, 2010 1:28AM PDT

One way to do that: run regedit and delete it from the MRU (Most Recently Used) list in the registry.
Another way to do it: keep opening and closing other documents until this particular one has been pushed down so far that it fell off.

Kees

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word-2
Sep 19, 2010 11:38AM PDT

How do you run regedit in Vista?? Please send me the steps.

Thanks!!!!

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Re: running regedit in Vista
Sep 19, 2010 5:35PM PDT
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Since the Recent Documents list in Word ...
Sep 21, 2010 12:34AM PDT

is optional but shows only those most recently opened you do have some control. This link ought to prove helpful for you.
http://tipsforwordprocessing.com/word_2007_0004.html

You will note that you can set to 0 to eliminate the list entirely and start new or you can raise or lower the number shown.