How to Maximize Excel's Recent Items Menu. To do so, choose File, Options, and then: In the General section, disable Show the Start Screen When This Application Starts. In the Save section, enable Don't Show the Backstage When Opening or Saving Files. Excel Recent Documents Not Showing. If there are no recent documents showing at all in your recent documents list then I would check the options as shown above. The options in the advanced section might be set to ZERO. Video showing How to Clear Recent Documents In Excel.
I have an Active Directory user (head of the Company) who has come to me with a question that I have not been able to pinpoint an answer to yet. He opened Excel 2013 this morning and noticed that all of the recently opened files that were listed were, to his knowledge, files that he had never accessed. The files were all located on one of our network drives; files that are of no security concern per say and are accessible by pretty much everyone in the company. Some of these files have last modified dates dating back to the late 90's and early 2000's. This user is very paranoid, for lack of a better term, when it comes to keeping his computer and files secure and unseen by other eyes; naturally he wants an answer as to why these files are being shown in his recently opened files list.He is concerned that someone is logging into his PC without his knowledge so I grabbed audit logs relating to his PC AND his AD user account.
I populated them so it shows the logon and relevant logoff information dating back for the last month for the PC as well as the user account. Nothing is out of the ordinary and he went back in his calendar to verify it. I also ran OpenFilesView to further look into documents that had been opened on his PC and while I was not able to look through this myself, he said everything checked out on this list.We are running Office 2013 via Office 365 ProPlus. He has Office installed on his laptop and desktop. The PC in question is only used by this user, and is running Windows 7 Professional.
The PC has been used by this user since it was new, and is roughly 2 years old. I cannot verify that he did not in fact open these files at some point in time and has just forgotten. I only have his word to go on. I also do not know how long these files have been showing up in Excel as recently opened, this was the first day that he had noticed it.I am hoping that someone might have some possible scenarios as to why this might have happened or some other tools or means of gaining insight to this issue.
Thanks for any and all help! I'm hoping someone expands on your reply GORT! He was gone yesterday afternoon and has meetings this morning so I'm still waiting to get the list of files from him that were in the recently used list. (On second though, I'm just going to remotely connect to the registry and check that way)He does go through the recent files list in Office applications and remove items from the list; he specifically told me that. I am still thinking these may be items he unknowingly opened in the past, and have just 'moved themselves up' in the list.Someone could for sure have his password and I haven't ruled that out(our password policy is 14 char minimum and requires numbers, symbols, and lower/upper case). I have recommended that he change his password.
I do have the logs showing all logon/logoffs for the past month. This does not account for the computer being locked and unlocked though; and of course someone could remove these entries from the Domain Controller and local PC logs, but wouldn't they be smart enough to clear the recent files list and/or purge the MRU of any files they'd opened? Also, the files that were opened were of no importance to anyone.
I would think that given the user in question that is potentially being compromised, they'd be going after high level documents. Hmm I'm not familiar with Office 365, so this may be a stupid question, but someone didn't accidentally save those files to the One Drive did they? I looked back on the ticket dealing with this in our situation and I believe the file in our case had been accidentally saved there and everyone could then see it in recent files, and open it. The funny thing was, they could remove it from recent files list and then it would come back until we removed the file from One drive. Once we deleted the file from One Drive, we fixed that by going in to options and taking out the ability to show other places to save files even if they require login. Apparently one of users didn't change the save-to location and it hit One Drive by default until we took out that check markBut there again, the location of the One drive probably differs in Office 365.
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Check your Save Locations in Options.Click the Microsoft Office buttonClick on the Excel Options button to bring up the Excel Options dialog box (at the bottom of window)Click on the Save button in the left hand paneIn the Right side panel, you should see:AutoRecover File Location:Default File LocationCheck both locations.Two other possible locations are:C:Documents and SettingsusernameMy DocumentsC:UsersusernameDocumentsAlso, are you sure you have the correct name?If you come across files called 'Book1' check themalso, as that is the default name Excel givesMIKE. I have been working on an excel file (.xlx)A file with the extension of.XLX is an Xcelsius Crystal Reports file,not an Excel file.Do you mean an XLS file type?In any case your question is confusing.You first say:always saving the same fileThen you say:I can only find the most recent version as of a month ago and not the my most recent save last weekIf the file has the same name all the time, you can have only one copy of it.That copy will be the most recent.Are you saving it to a different location each time you save?Not sure what your problem is.MIKE. Thanks for taking your time, and I apologize for the confusion. Let me try again.It is a 2007 excel file (.xlsx; not.xlx file) a typo!I have been working on the same document each time. I have saved it and opened it again many times over the past month or so.
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Each time I open the latest version of the document and continue to edit and then save. The last input is always there when I open it again.
Usually, I open it from one of the most recent documents in the list after I click on the office button in a blank excel document.This time I had to open the document from my document files because I had been cleaning up old files and opened many more excel documents and lost the link in the recent documents tab.When I did this, an old version from a month ago seems to be the most recently saved document. I searched for the document on the entire computer, but I only find the version from a month ago. I have always used the same name and location to save.Hope this helps you understand my plight and hope that you may have some words of wisdom for me! Check your Save Locations in Options.Click the Microsoft Office buttonClick on the Excel Options button to bring up the Excel Options dialog box (at the bottom of window)Click on the Save button in the left hand paneIn the Right side panel, you should see:AutoRecover File Location:Default File LocationCheck both locations.Two other possible locations are:C:Documents and SettingsusernameMy DocumentsC:UsersusernameDocumentsAlso, are you sure you have the correct name?If you come across files called 'Book1' check themalso, as that is the default name Excel givesMIKE.