Remove Recent Documents in MS Office

People sometimes doesn't want to keep their recent documents in history to be shown on their MS office. This is for the reason to protect their important documents from other's sight. 

What will be your reaction if I tell there is a way to remove the list of documents that you recently viewed from "Recent Documents"? Yes, Of course, there is a method.

Come on, let's see how to work on it.

Step 1

Go to Microsoft Office Word, Click on Office Button.

Step 2

Click on "Word Options" from Office button menu.

Step 3

When "Word Options" window opens, Click "Advanced".

Step 4 
In "Advanced Options for working with Word" scroll down and enter a value of "0" in "Display" under "Show this number of Recent Documents" and then press "OK" from bottom.

Step 5
Now you can see that the list of document names which you viewed recently would be removed from"Recent Documents" list.

Finally, your important documents are safe!