Fix it: Recent Office Documents not showing on the list

Fix it: Recent Office Documents not showing on the list 

If you have an issue with your recent documents list in any office program and it goes missing or doesn’t work, or it does not appear as per normal. Please try the following : 

This is what I'm talking about :

Click start

Click run

Type in "Regedit"

Navigate to  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Create / Delete the DWORD entry called: NoRecentDocsHistory
A value of 1 will disable the Recent Documents list and 0 is to enable the list

It applies to Office 2002,Office 2003,Office 2007