How to delete Recent Articles list in Word 2010

Microsoft Word is the preferred tool of a large number of people who are dedicated to performing different types of tasks that primarily involve, reports, articles of various kinds and even a curriculum vitae, something that is easy to execute due to the presence of the templates that are part of its structure.

Due to the large amount of work that we could be doing on a specific computer, perhaps other types of documents have been generated there that do not belong to us and that rather, come to be occasional jobs of our collaborators or of a close family member. You may not have realized it, but every time you open a new document in Microsoft Word, the list of the recently generated ones appears, something that can be annoying for us if there is a lot of information right there that we are not interested in reviewing in no instant. By means of a small trick that we will suggest below, we will have the possibility of eliminating this history and also making it appear in no time.

How to delete some recent articles in Microsoft Word

The tricks that we will mention in this article can be easily applicable to the versions of Microsoft Word that go from 2003 to 2013 although, for the moment we have decided to carry out this tutorial only focusing our attention on the 2010 version of Microsoft Word. We suggest you follow the following sequential steps so that you can achieve the proposed objective:

• Run or open your Microsoft Word
• Once you have the interface in view, click on the option «Archive»From the menu bar.
• Now navigate down the option of «Recent«.

Once we are in this place we will be able to see all those "recent documents" that could have been generated at a certain moment. To show the example that we are trying to mention we have placed a screenshot that you can admire below and where the list is not considerably large but, in your case, it could be the opposite.

Once here, you only have to select with the right mouse button any of the documents that you want to hide or delete from this list, thanks to the contextual menu option that will appear at that very moment; You could also use the option that says "Delete undocked documents" or click on the icon on the right side that will perform the same action. With this trick and method we have made a selective unlinking or elimination of those documents that we do not want to see at the moment.

How to delete all history from recent documents

Now, if we do not want to see at any time all those "recent documents" that can be generated because the computer "is not personal", then we could get to configure one of the options from the settings of this tool. For this, we recommend that you follow the following sequential steps:

• Abrigo runs Microsoft Word.
• Now select the option «Archive»From the Menu Bar.
• Go to the bottom and select «Options«.
• Once here you must go to «You advanced»From the left sidebar.
• On the right side try to find the section «Show«, Which is generally found towards the middle part of that area.

Once you are in this place you should look for the option that says «show this number of recent documents«, Which will be set by default to 25. All you need to do is change this value to« 0 »and then close the window using the« buttonAccept«.

With this second trick that we have mentioned, no document will be registered in this list, so we could be sure that ours will not be seen by someone who decides to use the computer with Microsoft Word; If you decide to revert the changes you have to follow the same steps but in reverse, that is, setting the default value of 25 for this second alternative that we have mentioned.