Re-activating the Recent Documents Function in LibreOffice 5

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#1

For most of the time I was using LibreOffice 4, the system kept track the most recent documents and I was able to click on "Recent Documents" to quickly go to a document I was working on. At some point in the last year, the function ceased to work. When I upgraded to LibreOffice 5 I thought the function might return, but it did not. I tried to re-activate the "Recent Documents" function by clicking on "Customize" in the drop down menu under "Tools" and then clicking on "Recent Documents" in the "Menu Content" box of the "Menus" tab, but from there I could not figure out what to do to re-activate the "Recent Documents" function. I would appreciate help if anyone out there knows how I can get the "Recent Documents" function to work again.

David Dorman

#2

hi.
i use libreoffice 4.4.6 and i wanted to ask how can deactivate recent
document fonction.
and i appreciate you if someone help me to do this.
i want to libreoffice does not keep the recent document which i opened before.
thanks so much and god bless you all.

#3

A simple Google search for 'libreoffice recent documents disable' found the following, among others:
http://superuser.com/questions/726467/libreoffice-4-2-1-1-do-not-display-list-of-recent-documents

You should not 'hijack' another person's question to ask your own different question.

#4

There is an Add-on call History Master that gives additional control over
recent documents.

#5

Recent Documents and its related RecentDocsThumbnail (at 5.2) are
configurable in Expert Configuration (Tools -> Options -> Advanced: Expert
Configuration

Open the Expert Configuration dialog and search for

PickListSize -- default is 25, setting to 0 effectively disables the main
menu File -> Recent Documents split list

or the new (at 5.2)

RecentDocsThumbnail -- boolean default is True. When set false the
StartCenter thumbnail views will not be rendered, and only ODF place holder
icons will show for items on the recent documents list.

In addition to these two internal LibreOffice history elements--the OS and
desktop environment may provide shell hooks to recent items. The
LibreOffice settings above have no affect on OS and DE provided recently
used items.

#6

RecentDocsThumbnail does not appear to be in the expert database.

John

#7

John, *

John R. Sowden wrote

RecentDocsThumbnail does not appear to be in the expert database.

As noted, not included until the 5.2.0 release--only present in current dev
builds of master.

Stuart