I have just had my hard drive replaced and have re-installed Office XP.

When I go into the Tools/Options/General tab in both Word and Excel, the "Recently used file list"
is greyed out.

Does anyone know who to turn this option on again.

I am using Windows XP Home SP2 and Office XP SP3

Thanks
Jude

Hi Jude, welcome to SAF

If you are not using TweakUI or other Windows tweaking software, you can try that:

click <Start/Run>. Type regedit.exe. Find the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer.

Double click "NoRecentDocsHistory" and change the value to 0.

Before doing any changes to your registry, create a backup first.
Do not change any other key/value on it.

Hope it will help,

Chris