Software

What you wish can be done within Word or Excel.

Open Word and Excel. Select Tools -> Options -> General. Uncheck box by Recently Used File List.

Dalton

The answer to this lies in the program itself using the tools and setting in word and excel yopu can alter this setting use help if you need to

The answer to this lies in the program itself using the tools and setting in word and excel yopu can alter this setting use help if you need to

Heres another way you can remove them (The way the guy said to do it above was good to)

Try this

ctrl alt -
use the top minus not the one near the numeric pad, You will see a -- click file and select the file you want removed.

Webroot's Window Washer
http://webroot.com/products/windowwasher

Window Washer will wash away all your dirt.

Alternatively you can use Window's built-in disk space cleaner (START > PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > SYSTEM TOOLS > DISK CLEANUP) to clean out junk from your hard drive. I know this doesn't fix your problem but it should help tidy up your system. There's also a way to schedule this utility by running "cleanmgr.exe -sageset:01" once set, run "cleanmgr.exe -sagerun:01" to re-run the job. You can schedule this job to run whenever you like in Scheduled Tasks.