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 :-(  

...pc

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-12-02T00:37:36+00:00

    Changing to MM/DD/yyyy fixes the issue but I really need it to work with DD/MM/yyyy which is the most common format outside of the U.S.

    Update: This issue has been fixed with a recent update. DD/MM/yyyy now works OK for recent file display.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-13T03:20:04+00:00

    Thanks Patrick, the solution is change the Regional settings to MM/DD/yy. I was using DD/MM/yy, maybe because my Windows is in Spanish with regional settings to Panamá. Now, I can see my recent files.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-11-11T23:03:10+00:00

    Thanks for the info Slavi - looks like you may be hitting a different issue (although today is one of those days where the format is less important (11/11))

    Let me see if we can get some more diagnostic info from you to get to the bottom of this.

    Thanks...pc

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-11-11T12:31:45+00:00

    Hi Patrick,

    Changing the short and long date formats both to US style 'MM/DD/yy' didn't work for me.

    I even restarted the PC - same result. Recent list is still empty.

    This is in the office where we have Windows 7

    At home, where I upgraded to Windows 10, even with Bulgarian date format, everything is OK - Recent list is full of files.

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