Excel on my Mac not showing recent workbooks.

[tuesdaytues]

Hello, I have been using a Mac for many years now and I have a lot of spreadsheets on it that I use with Excel. I usually am able to launch Excel, then go to Open Recent to see a list of spreadsheets I have been using. If the spreadsheet I want to open is not on the list I just hit the More selection and can find it in a window of only excel files.

For some reason all of these files are no longer in excel, Excel is showing Zero for Recent Workbooks, that includes all time frames. The files are still on my mac and I will need to go to each one of them, open them and close them to get them to repopulate in the Excel application.

does anyone know why this is occurring and how I can get all the files back in the Excel app without having to open/close all of them?

Thank you
Tuesday

 

[BrianBaughn]

Have you recently updated Excel? I'm wondering if an update would affect the list.

 

[tuesdaytues]

Hi Brian, no i have not updated Excel. There is an option on excel to clear history and if/when I do that it also removes ALL the files from the excel app. I just opened many of the files and resaved them so they show up now, but there are many more files on my mac that are excel files that will not show up. It is a weird issue and I have not found it anywhere when I search the internet for a solution.