I can't see the recent files office 2016

Anonymous
2015-10-18T13:21:02+00:00

Since I upgrading to Office 2016, I can not see the recent files of Office applications. I uninstalled the application I installed several times and not working. I have Windows 10 pro installed.

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Anonymous
2015-11-10T18:36:13+00:00

Hi folks - thanks for those who worked with our CSS folks to help us find the issue (we think that it's a date handling bug - you can confirm by temporarily setting your regional settings to the US style of ‘MM/DD/yy.’)

We're working on a fix for this - as per usual I can't give you an exact date but it should go out in one of the next couple of monthly updates. 

Sorry for the inconvenience here - we are a global company and we have a large number of international tests as well as extensive internal & global dogfood so no idea how we missed this one :-(  

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-07-01T17:05:04+00:00

    I had Office 2016 installed yesterday and was frustrated looking for my Recent documents.  I found them by clicking on File, Open;  Recent is at the top of the screen above OneDrive, Sites, This PC...

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-01-27T21:11:21+00:00

    It's been more than a year of your answer and we keep havinf this problem. You think it would be fixed? How can we know it's fixed if we have changed our regional settings?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-02-01T02:43:08+00:00

    Here's the solution:

    1. Go to File->Options
    2. Click on Advanced
    3. Scroll down to the Display section
    4. Just change the numbers of the indicated Recent Workbooks and save.

    This will reset the issue and you should be able to see the Recent documentswhen you click on the File Menu.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-02-01T03:20:08+00:00

    Nope, it doesn't work.

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