edit task pane - open a doc

[Michael Redbourn]

Hi,

Vs 2002 - SP3

I have some documents showing in the task pane under 'open a doc' that
no longer exist.

Is there a way to delete them from the list ?

Many thanks,

Michael
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[Jim Rech]

Excel will push them off in time on its own but they are stored in the
registry under:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Recent Files

Adjust the "11.0" for your version of Excel.

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Jim
"Michael Redbourn" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Vs 2002 - SP3
>
> I have some documents showing in the task pane under 'open a doc' that
> no longer exist.
>
> Is there a way to delete them from the list ?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Michael
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[Michael Redbourn]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 16:17:12 -0500, "Jim Rech" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Excel will push them off in time on its own but they are stored in the
>registry under:
>
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Recent Files
>
>Adjust the "11.0" for your version of Excel.

thanks for the help - this issue is not a 'big' thing but just an
irritation to click on things that no longer exist. In future I shall
give very different file names.

I deleted the entries from the registry with Excel open and they got
added back into the registry when I closed Excel. With Excel closed
they were not there when I re-opened it. I have really been able to
check out if this is the reason but it would appear so.

regards,


Mike
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