Change the number of Recent Documents in Excel 2007

When you click the Microsoft Office Button , you will see New, Open, Save, Save As and so on. To the right, you will use the files that you recently opened under the Recent Documents list. By default, 17 files are displayed. You can change this number to a value from 0 to 50. To change the number of Recent Documents, perform the following steps:

1. Open Microsoft Excel.
2. Click the Microsoft Office Button and click Excel Options.
3. From the Excel Options dialog box, click Advanced from the left pane.
4. From the right pane, under Display, enter a value from 0 to 50 in the Show this number of Recent Documents: box or click the UP arrow or DOWN arrow buttons to increase or decrease the number of files.
5. Click OK.

Note:
If 0 is entered in the Show this number of Recent Documents: box then you will have no files displayed under Recent Documents.