Excel 2016 Missing Recent Folders link

[dringstrom]

When I click on File, Open, and then Recent in Excel 2016 (version 1807) I have links for both Workbooks and Folders. Conversely I've run across Excel 2016 users that are missing the Folders link, and can only choose recent workbooks. I seem to recall that this initially missing from Excel 2016, and later added around version 1704 or thereabouts.

My questions:

• Does anyone know the version number where the Folders link was restored?

• Is there a RegEdit fix that can restore the Folders link? I seem to recall one but can't find any reference on Google or here in the forum.

 

[dringstrom]

[FONT=&quot]As often happens, as soon as I made a forum post, I then discover the registry key I was looking for:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Place MRU

I'll check with the affected users and see if this registry key is present for them. I do welcome any thoughts or shared experiences.[/FONT]

 

[sapapd]

As often happens, as soon as I made a forum post, I then discover the registry key I was looking for:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Excel\Place MRU

I'll check with the affected users and see if this registry key is present for them. I do welcome any thoughts or shared experiences.

Hi, was the 'Missing Folders' issue resolved?

 

[dringstrom]

Hi, was the 'Missing Folders' issue resolved?

From what I can tell the issue was limited to Office 365 users that had an early build of Office 365. Updating to a later build resolved the issue.