{"id":16853,"date":"2021-02-22T07:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=16853"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:35:21","slug":"clear-recent-documents-in-office-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/clear-recent-documents-in-office-word\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Methods to Clear Recent Documents in Office Word 2019 \/ 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do I clear recent files history from Office Word home page? Word keeps track of documents you’ve recently opened. When you click the Open<\/strong> menu, it will display a list of recently-opened documents.<\/p>\n

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You can choose to hide recent documents from the list. To do it, click the File<\/strong> menu and click Options<\/strong> at the bottom left. When the Word Options dialog opens, select the Advanced<\/strong> tab. On the right, scroll down to the Display section and set the “Show this number of Recent Documents<\/strong>” option to 0. After that, the recent documents list should be empty. However, if you revert the setting, all previously-displayed documents will be shown again.<\/p>\n

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To better protect your privacy, you should clear recent documents instead of just hiding them. In this tutorial we’ll show you 2 methods to clear recent documents or folders in Office Word 2019 \/ 2016.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Clear Recent Documents or Folders from Word GUI<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Microsoft Word. Click the File<\/strong> menu on the top-left corner.\n

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  2. Select the Open<\/strong> tab, click on Recent<\/strong> and then Documents<\/strong>. Right-click on any document in the recent list, and then choose the “Clear unpinned items<\/strong>” option.\n

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  3. Click Yes<\/strong> to confirm.\n

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  4. Your recent documents list will be cleared permanently. If you go to Open<\/strong> -> Recent<\/strong> -> Folders<\/strong>, it will display the recent folders list. You can use the similar way to clear the history as well.\n

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    Method 2: Clear Recent Documents or Folders in Word Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and browse to the following location. The x.0<\/strong> placeholder represents the version of Word that you’re using (Word 2019\/2016 = 16.0, Word 2013 = 15.0, Word 2010 = 14.0, Word 2007 = 12.0).
      \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\x.0\\Word\\FileMRU<\/code><\/li>\n
    2. On the right pane, select all available entries that are numbered from Item 1<\/em> to Item 50<\/em>, then right-click them and select Delete<\/strong>. This will clear recent documents history.\n

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    3. Next, navigate to the below location. Delete the entries named Item 1<\/em> – Item 50<\/em>, which contains the full folder of your recently opened documents.
      \nHKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\x.0\\Word\\Place MRU<\/code><\/p>\n

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    4. Close Registry Editor. Now your list of recent documents and folders in Word 2019 \/ 2016 should be empty.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How do I clear recent files history from Office Word home page? Word keeps track of documents you’ve recently opened. When you click the Open menu, it will display a list of recently-opened documents. You can choose to hide recent documents from the list. To do it, click the File menu and click Options at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[4642,4643,4641,4644],"class_list":["post-16853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-clear-recent-documents-in-word-2016","tag-clear-recent-documents-in-word-2019","tag-clear-recent-documents-word","tag-delete-recent-documents-in-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16853"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16874,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions\/16874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}