Recently used files in Word XP

[Jim Driscoll]

Hello all,

I have just installed Office XP and SP3 after uninstalling Office 2000 and
everything is in order except that the option to set the 'Recently used file
list' in Tools/Options/General and the History place in the Open dialog in
Word and Excel are grayed out.

Is there a simple fix?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Jim,

If you've used TweakUI or a registry hack to turn off the Documents
stuff in the Windows Start menu, that's also affecting the Office
list. See http://support.microsoft.com/?id=284896.

 

[Jim Driscoll]

_Many_ thanks, Jay!

Although I was using Windows XP Home SP1 (different configuration for
TweakUI), the registry hack information in the Knowledge Base article did
the trick.

Jim