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The Microsoft Office 'Recent file' list contain links to all office
documents, web pages that were accessed by the user. Files in this list are
independent of the files in Recent documents system folder. Hence this list
cannot be cleared by merely clearing the 'Recent documents' folder.
Office stores it's copy in a special folder called 'Recent'.
To clear it:
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Start Window Explorer.
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Navigate to 'C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent' folder. Replace <user> with the
name of the current profile in use. e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Shyam\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent. Also it assumes that the operating
system has been installed on the C drive.
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Select all the files and delete it.
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This will clear the 'Recent files' list.
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