Office documents not appearing in recent file history

dcree · dcree #1 (**permalink**)

11-02-2011, 04:12 PM

I recently got a new external hard drive, where I store all my documents. However, none of the Microsoft Office files stored on this disk appear in the "Today/Yesterday/Past Week" locations.

chscag · chscag #2 (**permalink**)

11-02-2011, 10:28 PM

I'm assuming you're referring to the MS Office opening dialog (Word gallery, Presentation gallery, etc.) which lists documents that have been previously opened by Office applications? If you are, I believe that MS Office will only "remember" documents stored in the default user documents folder, not on a separate hard drive.

dcree · dcree #3 (**permalink**)

11-03-2011, 10:02 AM

No, I am not referring to the recent documents once an Office program has been opened. If you look in Finder, under "Search for" are Recent/Yesterday/Past week choices. That is where the documents are not showing up. This new external hard drive is a replacement for one I had been using, and it worked fine.

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Member Since: Jan 23, 2008 Location: Fort Worth, Texas Posts: 32,384 Mac Specs: 21.5" iMac 2.5 GHz i5, iPad 3rd Gen., 3 iPods	11-02-2011, 10:28 PM I'm assuming you're referring to the MS Office opening dialog (Word gallery, Presentation gallery, etc.) which lists documents that have been previously opened by Office applications? If you are, I believe that MS Office will only "remember" documents stored in the default user documents folder, not on a separate hard drive. Community Guidelines
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Member Since: Nov 02, 2011 Posts: 2	11-02-2011, 04:12 PM I recently got a new external hard drive, where I store all my documents. However, none of the Microsoft Office files stored on this disk appear in the "Today/Yesterday/Past Week" locations.
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