All Recent & Pinned File Links Lost

Anonymous
2024-03-20T14:16:19+00:00

I rebooted my PC today after a Windows update and afterwards in Word, Excel and PowerPoint my Recent Files list and Pinned Files List are all empty. And when I open an existing document, it does not show up in the Recent file list like it used to.

How do I fix both of these issues?

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Anonymous
2024-03-22T15:04:46+00:00

For those who want to rollback to a previous version of Office 365 here are the directions.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-revert-to-an-earlier-version-of-office-2bd5c457-a917-d57e-35a1-f709e3dda841

The previous version information is: 3/4/2024 Version 2402 Build 17328.20162

To go further back click the following link and scroll down to "Version History".

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-microsoft365-apps-by-date?redirectSourcePath=%252fen-us%252farticle%252fae942449-1fca-4484-898b-a933ea23def7

You need to make sure you disable updates or the latest version will reinstall at some point.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T13:36:51+00:00

    Thanks for the comments Edward. Hopefully someone from Microsoft will look at this thread.

    Kevin

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T13:34:08+00:00

    Same thing happened here, hopefully there is a fix soon

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T13:01:38+00:00

    Uninstalling Microsoft 365 doesn't work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T12:57:06+00:00

    This seems to be related to Microsoft 365 being made your default app or something.

    I have Microsoft Professional 2021 and when I go to open it up by left clicking on start, I don't see it, but I see the Microsoft 365. The logos for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Professional 2021 look very similar.

    They may have tricked us into Microsoft 365. I have to go soon for an early morning appointment.

    Your recent lists will appear when you open Microsoft 365, and it will want to warn you and everything. But I don't think editing in that window will save to your local drive. I notice that Microsoft is invading everything and trying to put it on One Drive.

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