DELETE A DELETED FILE/DOCUMENT

[howieonline]

I had documents listed on my Office Word 2007. I have deleted the
files/documents but they are still listed on my "recent documents' area. I
know they are deleted and recycled and emptied. I get an error when i click
on them: "the >>>>.doc cannot be found. Check your spelling." I know its
deleted but it will not delete off my list. Also, I have listings of
documents on my recent documents area, but they are not in my documents
folder. Any ideas on that?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I had documents listed on my Office Word 2007. I have deleted the
files/documents but they are still listed on my "recent documents'
area. I know they are deleted and recycled and emptied. I get an
error when i click on them: "the >>>>.doc cannot be found. Check
your spelling." I know its deleted but it will not delete off my
list. Also, I have listings of documents on my recent documents
area, but they are not in my documents folder. Any ideas on that?

Word keeps the list of recently used documents in the registry, as entries
named "Item1", "Item2", and so on under the key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\File MRU

This list is not updated automatically when you delete the file it points
to. It's assumed that as you create or open more documents, the deleted ones
will be pushed further down the list until they fall off the end.

If it really bothers you to see the nonexistent files in the list, you can
run regedit.exe and go to the key, and delete the corresponding entries from
the right-side window. You may have to restart Word to make the changes take
effect. As far as I know there is no harm in deleting those entries, but the
standard warnings about editing the registry apply: Back up the registry
before you start, and don't mess with any parts you don't understand.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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