Microsoft Office 2007 Recent Documents List

Microsoft Office 2007 uses new Office Fluent Ribbon user interface with a section devoted to a list of Recent Documents that were opened. To clear the list, follow the steps below:

1. Click on Office button, and then click on Word Options (in Word 2007) or Excel Options (in Excel 2007) or PowerPoint Options (in PowerPoint 2007) in the bottom of Office Menu.
2. Go to the Advanced tab.
3. Scroll down to the Display section.
4. Set the value for Show this number of Recent Documents: to 0 (zero).

5. Click OK button.
6. Repeat steps above again, and set back the value for the number of Recent Documents to show to its original default, i.e. 17. If you don’t want this particular Office 2007 application to remember any Recent Documents, you can leave the value at 0 and skip this step.