excel file deleted. Now howdo you delete file NAME

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I deleted an excel file I had typed. Now I can't figure out how to delete
the file name. It still shows up when you click on open to see the files.
You can still open this but there is nothing there. Need to delete FILE NAME
 
Hi
TOOLS/OPTIONS/GENERAL
then either uncheck recently used file list or reduce it to 1 or 2.


HTH
Michael
 
If you mean in the drop down menu when you click file, follow the other
peoples advice. If you mean when you click oopen it's still there, that's
because you will have deleted the contents of the file, but not the file
itself. To do this right click on the file in the open window (cannot be open
itself to do this) and then click delete.
 
tHANKS SO MUCH FOR THE INFO. I FINALLY WAS ABLE TO TOUCH BASE WITH MY
'COMPUTER GURU' AND HE TOLD ME THE SAME THING. THANKS FOR THE "SIMPLE" REPLY
 
NANMAC said:
I deleted an excel file I had typed. Now I can't figure out how to delete
the file name. It still shows up when you click on open to see the files.
You can still open this but there is nothing there. Need to delete FILE NAME
Click to expand...
 
My question is...I deleted a word file but it still shows up when i click
open file although i cannot get into that file. i just want to remove the
file name since the file itself has been deleted..please tell me what to do.
 
Depends what you mean really. Where are you seeing the file name? If it is
when you click on 'File' that you see the filename in your MRU (Most
rceently Used) list, then you can't delete it singly, but it will eventually
disappear as you open other files and it moves down the list until it falls
off.

If however you are saying that you still see the file when you do File /
open and then browse to a directory, then i would surmise that you haven't
really deleted it, so go into windows explorer and see if you can see it in
there.

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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03

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