my recent documents inacessible Jennifer Blake <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> 6/26/2007 7:07:00 PM Hi, Someone I work with installed office 2007, professional I think. Now his "My Recent Documents" listing is gone from all his office apps. When he tried to put update the number of files to list the option is greyed out and he got some message about a policy preventing the change. Any ideas what policy and where? He has admin rights. Thanks, Jennifer

Re: my recent documents inacessible "Tim" <tim_at_overthere.com> 6/26/2007 8:35:48 PM It sounds like this is a corporate environment. Did the IT department install Office 2007? If so, perhaps they have restricted this feature (not sure why) via a group policy or something similar. Please post back with an update as there may be a different solution depending on your answer. Is your friend's PC running XP or Vista? Tim "Jennifer Blake" <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> wrote in message news:O9nWiVCuHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > Someone I work with installed office 2007, professional I think. Now his > "My Recent Documents" listing is gone from all his office apps. When he > tried to put update the number of files to list the option is greyed out > and he got some message about a policy preventing the change. Any ideas > what policy and where? He has admin rights. > > Thanks, Jennifer

Re: my recent documents inacessible Jennifer Blake <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> 6/27/2007 2:23:49 PM No, not corporate, academic. The machine is running 32 bit XP. And no IT dept. installed office, the professor did on his own machine, not in a domain so no group policies, just a simple workgroup. Jennifer Tim wrote: [Quoted Text] > It sounds like this is a corporate environment. Did the IT department > install Office 2007? If so, perhaps they have restricted this feature > (not sure why) via a group policy or something similar. Please post back > with an update as there may be a different solution depending on your > answer. > > Is your friend's PC running XP or Vista? > > Tim > > > "Jennifer Blake" <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> wrote in message > news:O9nWiVCuHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Hi, >> >> Someone I work with installed office 2007, professional I think. Now >> his "My Recent Documents" listing is gone from all his office apps. >> When he tried to put update the number of files to list the option is >> greyed out and he got some message about a policy preventing the >> change. Any ideas what policy and where? He has admin rights. >> >> Thanks, Jennifer >

Re: my recent documents inacessible "Tim" <tim_at_overthere.com> 6/27/2007 4:44:10 PM OK...check out this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284896/en-us?FR=1 It may apply to Office 2007 as well. Note that you will need to download and install "Tweak UI" first if you don't have it already. It's a free utility from Microsoft. Get it from: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Tim "Jennifer Blake" <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> wrote in message news:e4LmIbMuHHA.3796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > No, not corporate, academic. The machine is running 32 bit XP. And no IT > dept. installed office, the professor did on his own machine, not in a > domain so no group policies, just a simple workgroup. > > Jennifer > > Tim wrote: >> It sounds like this is a corporate environment. Did the IT department >> install Office 2007? If so, perhaps they have restricted this feature >> (not sure why) via a group policy or something similar. Please post back >> with an update as there may be a different solution depending on your >> answer. >> >> Is your friend's PC running XP or Vista? >> >> Tim >> >> >> "Jennifer Blake" <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> wrote in message >> news:O9nWiVCuHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> Hi, >>> >>> Someone I work with installed office 2007, professional I think. Now his >>> "My Recent Documents" listing is gone from all his office apps. When he >>> tried to put update the number of files to list the option is greyed out >>> and he got some message about a policy preventing the change. Any ideas >>> what policy and where? He has admin rights. >>> >>> Thanks, Jennifer >>

Re: my recent documents inacessible Jennifer Blake <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> 6/29/2007 2:10:11 PM It was TweakUI, thanks. Tim wrote: [Quoted Text] > OK...check out this link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284896/en-us?FR=1 > > It may apply to Office 2007 as well. Note that you will need to download > and install "Tweak UI" first if you don't have it already. It's a free > utility from Microsoft. Get it from: > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx > > Tim > > "Jennifer Blake" <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> wrote in message > news:e4LmIbMuHHA.3796[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> No, not corporate, academic. The machine is running 32 bit XP. And no >> IT dept. installed office, the professor did on his own machine, not >> in a domain so no group policies, just a simple workgroup. >> >> Jennifer >> >> Tim wrote: >>> It sounds like this is a corporate environment. Did the IT department >>> install Office 2007? If so, perhaps they have restricted this feature >>> (not sure why) via a group policy or something similar. Please post >>> back with an update as there may be a different solution depending on >>> your answer. >>> >>> Is your friend's PC running XP or Vista? >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> "Jennifer Blake" <jblake[ at ]acad.umass.edu> wrote in message >>> news:O9nWiVCuHHA.1672[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Someone I work with installed office 2007, professional I think. Now >>>> his "My Recent Documents" listing is gone from all his office apps. >>>> When he tried to put update the number of files to list the option >>>> is greyed out and he got some message about a policy preventing the >>>> change. Any ideas what policy and where? He has admin rights. >>>> >>>> Thanks, Jennifer >>> >