It’s also possible to set a registry value to enable a policy that prevent displaying of any MRU lists. However, note that the policy will affect and honor by most Microsoft programs, such as all versions of Office and its individual products, so if you use this registry trick to turn of the policy no most recently used files history will be saved for all programs, including MRUs on the File menu and the Save and Open dialog boxes.
Run Registry Editor (regedit).
Navigate to the following registry key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
If “Explorer” is not existed, create a new Key for “Explorer”.
Create a DWORD value with the key NoRecentDocsHistory and set the value to 1.
All “Recent Documents” list will not be saved and all display will turn blank.
Click on Office button, and then click on Word Options
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