Number of Office files in jump lists

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Following an Office 365 update on my Surface Book the number of files that can be included on the Word and Excel jump lists has fallen from the 50 that I set to a maximum of about 20. Acrobat DC still has 50. Computer has Windows 10 Pro 1909 Build 18363.959.

I use:
To change number of Jump List items, open RegEdit and navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Click on Advanced key. On menu, click Edit > New > DWORD (32 bit) Value.
Name it: JumpListItems_Maximum
Right click it, select Modify and set Hexadecimal Value to the number of files you want.

This no longer seems to be working – ideas welcome.
Jon

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Have you tried setting the W10 settings to the required jumplist settings?
My thinking behind this is, W10 may possibly over-ride the O365 settings.
see: howtogeek article on how to achieve this.
Let us know if this works or not. TIA

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Thanks Microfix – that is the system I have always used, but now not working. But when I set decimal, it automatically changes to hexadecimal, but I think that means the article is wrong. My jumplist is now 23, but will not get any larger – ie, won’t scroll. Any further ideas welcome. I do need at least 30 files on each jumplist.

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I wondered if your change from decimal to hexadecimal wasn’t actioned as a result of account permissions. Are you doing this as administrator?

From a quick investigation, it appears there is a limit of 54 (or there was at one point – may not still be).

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Hi Kirsty – nice butterfly! I logged in to Regedit as administrator. If I select Decimal, it changes automatically to Hexadecimal – no idea why. Curiously my Acrobat jumplist has 60 files, even though I have now set JumpListItems_Maximum to 50. Again, no idea why. Looked online and found https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/45535-change-maximum-number-items-jump-lists-windows-10-a-4.html

This suggested setting or adding:

“JumpListItems_Maximum”=dword:00000050
“Start_JumpListItems”=dword:00000050
“EnableXamlJumpView”=dword:00000001

This worked, or at least I hope it did – my Word jumplist immediately reset to 40, but doesn’t seem to want to go to 41 – I will check and advise. But 40 is ok. My Reg Editor uses reg-dword not just dword, but makes no difference. Microsoft needs to look into this IMO – if it was due to an Office update, it will be causing many problems!

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