Policy
Number of workbooks in the Recent Workbooks list
Microsoft Office
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
This policy setting specifies the number of entries displayed in the Recent Workbooks list that appears when users click Open on the File tab in Backstage view. If you enable this policy setting, you can specify the number of entries to be between 0 and 50. If you set the number to 0, all pinned and unpinned entries are hidden. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, a maximum of 25 items will be displayed in the Recent Workbooks list. Note: If you want to prevent items from being added to the Recent Workbooks list entirely, you can enable the "Do not keep history of recently opened documents" Windows policy setting.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
| Scope | Element | Type | Registry mapping | Constraints & behavior | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| User | Entries on recently used file list ID L_Entriesonrecentlyusedfilelist | decimal | Path software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\file mru Value name max display Type REG_DWORD | Range: 0 to 50 |