Covering+your+tracks…

Covering your tracks…

If you’ve been working in Word and have documents that you don’t wish to be displayed in the list at the bottom of the file menu.

Perhaps it’s important that other users of your system don’t know about them: ‐

Lists of Birthday or Christmas present ideas, political scandal, personal correspondence

All your personal stuff.

You can empty the list easily by pulling open the Tools menu selecting the Options submenu,

Then clicking on the General tab, go down to the entry labelled:‐

’Recently used file list, untick/check its box, and close the whole dialogue.

This will remove the list of recently used files immediately.

Verify this by opening the File menu.

If your intention is only to clear the list, but still see it working in the future.

Go right back to the General tab and retick/check the entry.

Note that the maximum number of files in the list will be set to the default, Four ( 4 )

You may like to change this to any value up to Nine ( 9 ).

The list will start with the next file used.

In some versions of Microsoft Office programs, there is an entry on the Tools pull‐down menu labelled Tools on the web.

Follow this and you’ll be brought to a web‐site full of tips, ideas, templates, add‐ons, training and assistance.