Microsoft Excel 2010 - Hide Recent Documents or Show More

SUMMARY: Configure Excel 2010 to hide the list of recent documents for privacy, or show more of them.

As with other Office 2010 applications, Microsoft Excel 2010 keeps a list of recent workbooks, allowing you to directly access frequently-edited documents without having to navigate your computer or network drives. If you have workbooks located in a variety of locations, this Recent list may prove very useful.

While Excel 2010 by default displays the last 25 documents, if you work on many workbooks you may want to increase this number up to 50. On the other hand, if you are worried about privacy you may wish to disable this list altogether.

1. Select the "File" tab in the Ribbon.

2. The Microsoft Office Backstage View appears. Click the "Options" button.

(Or instead of steps 1 and 2, press Alt + T, then the letter O.)

3. The "Excel Options" dialog box appears. Click "Advanced" in the left pane.

4. Underneath "Display" (you may have to scroll down), next to "Show this number of Recent Documents" enter a number from 0 to 50, 0 to disable this list.

Configuring Excel 2010 not to show any recent documents

5. Click "OK" on the bottom-right of the dialog box to close it.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Force All Documents to Open in a Particular View

SUMMARY: If you open many PowerPoint 2010 documents daily and every author saves them with their own view, force PowerPoint to start on one particular view.

If you work in an office environment requiring the opening of many Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentations from a variety of authors, you may have noticed that presentations get saved with a variety of views. Perhaps one person was working on Notes when they saved their presentation, another likes using the Outline View, and yet another forgoes notes and displays slides along with thumbnails.

Instead of opening every presentation in the view saved inside the file, you can force PowerPoint 2010 to open every presentation in the view you desire.

1. Select the "File" tab in the Ribbon.

2. The Microsoft Office Backstage View appears. Click the "Options" button.

(Or instead of steps 1 and 2, press Alt + T, then the letter O.)

3. The "PowerPoint Options" dialog box appears. Click "Advanced" in the left pane.

4. Underneath "Display", next to "Open all documents using this view", click the pull-down. From here you can choose from the following options:

* The view saved in the file (default)

* Normal - outline, notes and slides

* Normal - thumbnails, notes and slide

* Normal - outline and slide

* Normal - thumbnails and slide

* Normal - notes and slide

* Normal - slide only

* Outline Only

* Slide Sorter

* Notes

Configuring PowerPoint 2010 to open documents in a particular view

5. Click "OK" on the bottom-right of the dialog box to close it.

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