Setup: Windows 10 Pro, Office 2010 Word and Excel
The following occurs for both Word and Excel. When I select "Save As" from the File menu, I get a menu that includes a "File Name" field. If I click on the down-arrow on that field, I get a list of files I previously saved this way. I would like to clear out this list. Any ideas on how I do that? This list has become quite unwieldy.
Please note I have disabled Recent Documents and Recent Places under File -> Recent for both Word and Excel, so there are no files or folders listed there. The above "Save As" menu, along with the "Open" menu, have their own list of files they retain. I tried searching the registry for one of the files in the pull-down list, but I didn't get a hit.
EDIT: This may be a Windows "feature" rather than specific to the Office 2010 applications. I get similar (albeit smaller) lists in applications like WordPad.
The following occurs for both Word and Excel. When I select "Save As" from the File menu, I get a menu that includes a "File Name" field. If I click on the down-arrow on that field, I get a list of files I previously saved this way. I would like to clear out this list. Any ideas on how I do that? This list has become quite unwieldy.
Please note I have disabled Recent Documents and Recent Places under File -> Recent for both Word and Excel, so there are no files or folders listed there. The above "Save As" menu, along with the "Open" menu, have their own list of files they retain. I tried searching the registry for one of the files in the pull-down list, but I didn't get a hit.
EDIT: This may be a Windows "feature" rather than specific to the Office 2010 applications. I get similar (albeit smaller) lists in applications like WordPad.
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