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
    2016-03-11T00:15:04+00:00

    March 10, 2016 and STILL NO SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM. I had to change my region to United States in order to bring back the recent files. More then three months and MS hasn't released a patch yet. Unbelievable....

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-09T09:41:12+00:00

    I have the exact same problem, but it is intermittent. Sometimes I open Excel and there are no files in the recent list, but if I close it and reopen (maybe sleeping but without restarting my PC) the list then appears as it should.

    No other changes, to the date format for example, or to anything else, were made.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-03T14:09:39+00:00

    For Outlook 2016 help this register

    File menu by setting the MaxAttachmentMenuItems value.

    Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\Mail

    Value name: MaxAttachmentMenuItems

    Value type: REG_DWORD

    Value: 0

    Set the value to the amount of Recent Items you want to be shown. By setting the value to 0, you’ll disable the Recent Items list in the Attach File menu completely.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T18:08:46+00:00

    Hello:

    I have the same problem with Windows 7, any ideas?

    Thanks

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