Mar 9, 2023 · As per your description, you want to disable showing recent documents from Excel and Word. We'd like to help you, please let us cooperate, we can work together to narrow down and resolve the situation. Regarding " I have tried settings options / advanced / Show this number of recent workbooks to 0, but still there are recent workbooks shown "

Running windows 10, Office 365. Prior to reinstalling Windows and Office 365, if I right clicked on the excel icon in the taskbar several recent files displayed. Now, after reinstalling Windows and Office 365, right clicking on the icon no longer displays any recent files. I used this list as a short cut to open the files.

Jan 2, 2023 · HiI have recently upgraded to windows 11. When i right click on the word icon in the taskbar it lets me view and pin recent documents, however, it won't let me do this for excel. I have gone into

Mar 21, 2024 · All of my recent files in Excel have disappeared overnight. They were here yesterday. I can't even open and pin files again to get them to show as recent. I am having the same issue. The client I am having this issue with uses re …

May 6, 2020 · I went into excel today to open a file. I utilize the recent feature to find things. Well it looks different now, and contains files from prior years, and not all of my recent files. Now I can't find something I worked on in the last 30 days. Not sure why this changed.

Apr 27, 2023 · Recent list display only the last few documents you opened in Excel so that you can quickly access the files using those links. Please confirm that your local files, when you open them in Excel, they do not show up in your recent list? Try opening the files from Excel > File > Open and browse to the file to open it > make changes > Save.

Apr 11, 2024 · Uncheck this box to stop displaying recent documents. Optionally, if you want to clear the existing list of recent documents, you can click on the "File Locations" button next to the checkbox. In the File Locations window, you'll see a list of recent files. Select the files you want to remove from the list and click on the "Remove" button.

Mar 14, 2024 · * Both Word and Excel are on "...Version 2309 (Build 15831.20208 ..." The organization does the system/network updates once a week. Yesterday I tried unpinning Excel from the taskbar and opening a couple of Excel documents, saved and re-pinning but still no Recent docs history when right clicking Excel icon on the task bar.

Oct 30, 2017 · My last used excel files quit showing up in the file explorer recent files list. They are showing up inside excel on the open menu but i usually open recent documents from file explorer so would be nice to get them back there. I opened several excel files in the past few days but none of them show up on the list. See attached picture.

May 8, 2020 · Excel 365 for enterprise. Windows 10 . Resolved solution: Stop sharing the Excel files stored in OneDrive. Possible solution: Reset Recent list settings: 1. Go to Excel > File > Options > Advanced > Display > enter “0” in the “Show this number of Recent Workbooks” option and click OK and quit Excel. 2.