Have you installed Powertoys or changed the registry? If you for instance
have set no recent documents under windowsstart in either powertoys for
windows or directly through the registry then you won't get any recent files
in Office either

Regards,

Peo Sjoblom

"Bruce Wilson" wrote:

I am running Excel under SP3 of Office XP. The option for the recent file
list in the general tab is greyed out so I can not see any recently used
files on the menu.

What is the solution?

Bruce Wilson