Recent Items not cycling

It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

In message , Ken1943
writes:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:36:30 -0800, "W. eWatson"
wrote:

It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

Recent items from where to where. Explain more.

I understood him - he means the "Recent" which appears (for some people;
others have turned it off/never turned it on) in the Start menu.

KenW

I think the answer may be that you created abcde.docx by opening Word,
creating the text, then saving, giving a filename when Word prompted
you. I think to appear in Recent, you have to have clicked on the file
from explorer.
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W. eWatson wrote:
It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

In this example, Word keeps a recent items,
and there is a control for the number of items.
You could set the recent items to 0, save and
exit. Then enter the program again, and set
the recent items to a finite number larger than
zero. Perhaps that will make the recent items
work again.

http://www.howtogeek.com/141490/how-...-in-word-2013/

There are recent items all over the place on the computer,
so you need to be a bit more specific when asking questions
of this nature. Like, where are you seeing this list, what
is the version of Word (if the feature is inside Word),
or you're looking at a list of recent items somewhere
else (LibreOffice maybe) ?

Paul

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:12:54 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , Ken1943
writes:
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:36:30 -0800, "W. eWatson"
wrote:

It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

Recent items from where to where. Explain more.

I understood him - he means the "Recent" which appears (for some people;
others have turned it off/never turned it on) in the Start menu.

That's what I thought, but of course he could mean something else, as
Ken1943 and Paul both think.

I think the answer may be that you created abcde.docx by opening Word,
creating the text, then saving, giving a filename when Word prompted
you. I think to appear in Recent, you have to have clicked on the file
from explorer.

Interesting idea. I like it.

I rarely use Recent Items, so I haven't been aware of its oddities.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On 1/21/2015 4:04 PM, Paul wrote:
W. eWatson wrote:
It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

In this example, Word keeps a recent items,
and there is a control for the number of items.
You could set the recent items to 0, save and
exit. Then enter the program again, and set
the recent items to a finite number larger than
zero. Perhaps that will make the recent items
work again.

http://www.howtogeek.com/141490/how-...-in-word-2013/


There are recent items all over the place on the computer,
so you need to be a bit more specific when asking questions
of this nature. Like, where are you seeing this list, what
is the version of Word (if the feature is inside Word),
or you're looking at a list of recent items somewhere
else (LibreOffice maybe) ?

Paul

I sure didn't know there was more than one Recent Items. The one giving
me the "problem" is found by clicking the button in the lower left. Word
2007. Where is the control for numbers?

Paul wrote:

W. eWatson wrote:
It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

In this example, Word keeps a recent items,
and there is a control for the number of items.
You could set the recent items to 0, save and
exit. Then enter the program again, and set
the recent items to a finite number larger than
zero. Perhaps that will make the recent items
work again.

http://www.howtogeek.com/141490/how-...-in-word-2013/

There are recent items all over the place on the computer,
so you need to be a bit more specific when asking questions
of this nature. Like, where are you seeing this list, what
is the version of Word (if the feature is inside Word),
or you're looking at a list of recent items somewhere
else (LibreOffice maybe) ?

Paul

Without stating an application that has a MRU (most recently used) list,
I have to assume the OP is discussing the Start menu's MRU (Start -
Recent Items in right panel). To clear that you can right-click on
Recent Items, or you could use a utility, like CCleaner, to run manually
or schedule to run at specific times or upon some events.

Because she is looking at it (to say it isn't updating) then it has not
been removed (right-click Start button, Properties, Start menu tab,
Customize button, checkbox for Recent Items). The OP should also look
there to make sure "Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists"
(the right-side Start menu panel) is configured to something other than
zero so it will actually hold an MRU list of recently opened docs.

VanguardLH wrote:

Paul wrote:

W. eWatson wrote:
It seems as though Recent Items doesn't cycle items. For example if i
write say a abcde.docx and save it, that file name does not appear in
Recent Items. What's up?

In this example, Word keeps a recent items,
and there is a control for the number of items.
You could set the recent items to 0, save and
exit. Then enter the program again, and set
the recent items to a finite number larger than
zero. Perhaps that will make the recent items
work again.

http://www.howtogeek.com/141490/how-...-in-word-2013/

There are recent items all over the place on the computer,
so you need to be a bit more specific when asking questions
of this nature. Like, where are you seeing this list, what
is the version of Word (if the feature is inside Word),
or you're looking at a list of recent items somewhere
else (LibreOffice maybe) ?

Paul

Without stating an application that has a MRU (most recently used) list,
I have to assume the OP is discussing the Start menu's MRU (Start -
Recent Items in right panel). To clear that you can right-click on
Recent Items, or you could use a utility, like CCleaner, to run manually
or schedule to run at specific times or upon some events.

Because she is looking at it (to say it isn't updating) then it has not
been removed (right-click Start button, Properties, Start menu tab,
Customize button, checkbox for Recent Items). The OP should also look
there to make sure "Number of recent items to display in Jump Lists"
(the right-side Start menu panel) is configured to something other than
zero so it will actually hold an MRU list of recently opened docs.

Oh, "write say a abcde.docx" indicates the OP was using Word so maybe
that is the MRU she is looking for or at.

Where is the MRU list in MS Word depends on the version of the product.
Similarly, where is the configuration setting in MS Word that specifies
how many entries to retain in the MRU depends on the version of that
product.

In MS Word 2013, the MRU is presented when you first load the program
(left pane under Recent section) or under the File - Open menu when you
have a doc already loaded. The config settings for how many entries are
in the Recent list is under Word Options - Advanced - Display section
- Show this number of Recent Documents. Other versions of MS Word have
the MRU and its config setting elsewhere.

If the OP is using a cleaning tool then it could be wiping the MRU lists
in MS Word, many other apps, and in Windows.

Ah, saw the OP's post about 16 minutes before my reply (my client
refreshes and retrieves new posts at 10-minute intervals).

So it's Word 2007's MRU list (Recent docs). This describes where to
configure how many items to show in the Recent list:

http://www.mohantabdar.com.np/how-to...el-powerpoint/

Make sure it isn't zero.

Clicking the Office button at the top right corner of Word's window
shows the File menu and a right-side panel listing the Recent docs.

I don't have Word 2007 to see what is the "button in the lower left [of
Word's window]". From the undersized video of Word 2007 shown at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXpQ4v3WTkY (mute the sound to avoid the
noise, there's no dialogue), I don't see a bottom left button for Recent
docs, only Page x of y indicator in the status bar and next to that on
the right is the Count indicator (# words, # characters, etc).

In message , W. eWatson
writes:
[]
I sure didn't know there was more than one Recent Items. The one giving
me the "problem" is found by clicking the button in the lower left.

I'm assuming you mean the "Start Orb", i. e. part of Windows rather than
Word, with the "Recent" link that appears when you click on that.

(You probably _do_ know there are other recent lists - sometimes called
MRU, for most-recently-used; they're inside prog.s, usually under
"File", and are only for files opened by that program. [Some prog.s,
such as recent versions of Word, have rather more sophisticated "recent"
lists; older prog.s just have a few under "File", addressed by the
digits 1, 2, 3, etc.])

Word 2007. Where is the control for numbers?

See VanguardLH's posts. Though those refer to Word's own MRU lists, not
the one on the Start menu.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

"He hasn't one redeeming vice." - Oscar Wilde

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

In message , W. eWatson
writes:
[]
I sure didn't know there was more than one Recent Items. The one giving
me the "problem" is found by clicking the button in the lower left.

I'm assuming you mean the "Start Orb", i. e. part of Windows rather than
Word, with the "Recent" link that appears when you click on that.

(You probably _do_ know there are other recent lists - sometimes called
MRU, for most-recently-used; they're inside prog.s, usually under
"File", and are only for files opened by that program. [Some prog.s,
such as recent versions of Word, have rather more sophisticated "recent"
lists; older prog.s just have a few under "File", addressed by the
digits 1, 2, 3, etc.])

Word 2007. Where is the control for numbers?

See VanguardLH's posts. Though those refer to Word's own MRU lists, not
the one on the Start menu.

My first reply actually did assume she meant the Start menu's Recent
docs list (but didn't detail how to find the setting for how many items
to keep in the list). Then it looked like she meant a MRU in MS Word.
So we really do not know which MRU with which she is having a problem.