I am trying to cover my tracks and when I click on "open Office Document" the drop down box for the file name contains document name that I have searched for in the past. I can not find a way to delete this list and/or stop it from saving the history of what I have typed. Does anyone have any suggestions? It seems to function the same in all versions of office from 2000 thru 2003.

I can't check this as Office activation has disabled my menu's! But if you mean what I think go into Tools, Options. You should find the option in there to reduce the last opened file list, can't remember the menu name in threre! If you set it to 0 and close then go back in and reset it to what ever this should get rid if the list in Word etc...! But I would think Windows might be keeping track elswhere anyway! Hope that helps

try downloading something like super cleaner

Thanks, but that did not fix it. It still shows last 10 entries. Any other ideas, I don't want to install a seperate program.

Paul, Since they still show then I suspect you either did it incorrectly or performed the wrong task. Go to Word's Tools, Options, General tab and look for "Recently used file list". In it's drop down box change it to "0" and click Ok. Close Word. Reopen Word and check to see if it is still set at "0". Then look under File to see if there are none showing. Regards, Bryan

I did it correctly and If you go to the file menu, there are no recent files shown, but If you go to open a file and click on the down arrow (Next to File), it still shows a list of the most recent files.

Not sure what you mean. If you go to file open, the program opens to your default file location folder for your documents! The only way you can hide them is to have your documents saved anywhere other than your default file location folder! Tools - options - file locations