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Recent Documents in Office 2007

I am running Windows 7 and using Office 2007.  On both Word and Excel Options I have selected the option to show recent documents, but every time I reboot the computer the recent documents list refreshes (empty).  It occurred to me that perhaps something in my Norton Utilities "Clean Up" function, which I use regularly, was interfering with MS Office's retention of recent documents.  But after removing any mention of recently viewed documents from the "Clean up" options, the problem remains.  Any idea?

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Phil
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Are you sure  the value of "Show this number of recent documents" is not zero under the Word Options -> Advanced->Display

Uncheck Office 2007 in the settings in "CCleaner"  
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marahman3001,

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I have the appropriate number of recent documents set in Office.  What is "CCleaner"?  Where do I find it?

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Phil
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CCleaner is installed only by choice from http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner..evidently you don't use it..
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I checked for CCleaner (wasn't there), and double-checked to make sure the Norton Utilities box for "recent documents" was unchecked.  Any other thoughts?
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Note that Office and Windows keep separate MRU lists:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826208
The only explanation I can figure is that the settings in either Word or Norton (though seemingly correct) had not been saved properly.  Everything's good now.  Thanks, all!