Windows 7 - Excel: Open Recent Files - List does not change

Asked By juan

21-Jan-10 09:48 PM

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I cannot get the list to change. It continues to list the same 10 files all the time.  <br><br>If I delete the Microsoft Preferences file, i.e. com.microsoft.Excel.plist, the next time I start up Excel, the same 10 files are there. <br><br>If I open several new files, they initially get added to the list. However, once again, once I re-start Excel, the original 10 files are still there. <br><br>If I turn off the recently opened list in the Excel General preferences, delete the Excel preferences file and the open Excel and recheck the Show recently opened files in the Excel General preferences, the same original 10 files are there in the list again. <br><br>Excel is haunted??????

22-Jan-10 10:29 PM

In article <59bb169a.-1@webcrossing.JaKIaxP2ac0>,


Recent files are stored in the

com.microsoft.office.plist

file, not the Excel preferences.

Sounds like that may have been corrupted. Try deleting it. But make sure
ALL Office apps are closed first (just as you must have Excel closed
when you delete the Excel preferences, or Excel will just write the bad
prefs back to the new pref file).

23-Jan-10 08:33 AM

Thank you. <br><br>I found two files <br><br>com.microsoft.office.plist AND <br>
com.microsoft.office.plist.qBDACyo <br><br>I trashed both of them. <br><br>I also needed a November 2009 update for Office so I updated that too. <br><br>So far Excel seems fine. thank you very much!