Addtorecentfiles trouble

[zaza]

Hi,

More specifically, I was wondering if there are any options which need to be set so that the Addtorecentfiles parameter of the Documents.Open method works, or any activities which stop it from working. I find that the file I want not to appear in the Recent Files list persists in doing so. I've checked all my uses of Documents.Open, and this parameter is always set False. Also, just in case it does something different should the file already be named in the list, I've opened lots of Word documents to get it out of the Recent files list, then tried my code again and it just puts the file back on the list again.

Any ideas?

Cheers

zaza

[RobDog888]

The recent files list stores in three places:
C:\Documents and Settings\VB-Guru\Recent
C:\Documents and Settings\VB-Guru\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent
Also, a section in the Registry. I forgot where but I had assisted in a thread on it before so amy a search would show it location.
Try clearing out your files and testing again. It could be that its being added from the cache.

[sciguyryan]

The recent files list stores in three places:
C:\Documents and Settings\VB-Guru\Recent
C:\Documents and Settings\VB-Guru\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\Recent
Also, a section in the Registry. I forgot where but I had assisted in a thread on it before so amy a search would show it location.
Try clearing out your files and testing again. It could be that its being added from the cache.

What about setting the 4^th parameter of the Documents.Open to False, would that not work?

Dim objExample As Object
objExample = Documents.Open(FileName:="D:\MS Office\My Documents\Other\Complete Idiots Guide To DVD Remote.doc", AddToRecentFiles:=False)

Cheers,

RyanJ

[RobDog888]

Zaza is already doing that. Maybe there is something else going on?

[sciguyryan]

Zaza is already doing that. Maybe there is something else going on?

OOps, sorry I did not see that bit....


Cheers,

RyanJ

[RobDog888]

No need to apologize, just was pointing it out hoping to help narrow it down to the issue.

[sciguyryan]

No need to apologize, just was pointing it out hoping to help narrow it down to the issue.

Like you said deleting the entry from the recent documents list would do the trick if you cannot fix this problem

And I checked in the registry and I cannot seem to find a place where they are stored, maybe they are not stored in the registry after all

Cheers,

RyanJ

[RobDog888]

I found it. It was in the General Developers Forum.

Recent Files Locations

[westconn1]

if you saveas it can also addtorecentfiles

also to remove
RecentFiles(2).Delete


pete

[zaza]

Hi,

Aha, nice work westconn1. Actually, I wasn't using saveas. I was, however, including a sneaky Save option in the "Close" method - it was this that was causing it to be added to the files list. Solution: save it first using SaveAs with Addtorecentfiles set to false, then close it without saving.

Job done. Nice one.

zaza

[westconn1]

any save method that uses options is really saveAs

pete