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April 20, 2010 at 11:25 PM
jimmy

How to clear previous file names from Word 2007

by jimmy . Updated 16 years, 2 months ago

I am trying to help a buddy who has a new Dell with Windows XP Pro sp3 (Win 7 Pro downgraded to XP Pro sp3) and MS Office Pro 2007. He has recently started to have to share his computer, but he would prefer for the other user not to know what files he has recently been working on. Because of company policies, they have share a login as well as the computer.

I have talked him through changing the settings for ‘recent files’ to ZERO by going to WORD OPTIONS then ADVANCED, and setting the Number of Recent Docs = 0.

His problem/concern, is that if you go to SAVE AS… then click the Drop Down arrow for the file name, it lists all of the recent files he has accessed.

I have had him do a DISK CLEANUP, clear the HISTORY and everything else from IE8 (I didn’t really expect the IE settings to effect it, but I was grasping for straws).

Any help offered will be greatly appreciated.

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