Recently opened files do not show when right click Word in the taskbar, Excel is fine

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Andrew CCC

Some time in the last few weeks, Word stopped updating the recently opened files shown when I right click the icon in the taskbar. It showed only 3 files that I had not opened in a long time. I right clicked on each of those 3 files and selected "Remove from this list" but the list never populated again with more recent files.


I searched on Microsoft and elsewhere, and I found many things to try, including some registry editing, but none of them worked.


Why did it stop? I barely care. I just want to be able to rectify it if/when it happens again.

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