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
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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