When I login to office.com in browser, how do I clear quick access and recent files showing?

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When I login to office.com in browser, how do I clear quick access and recent files showing?

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When I login to office.com in browser, how do I clear quick access and recent files showing? There doesnt seem to be any option to clear this?

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Francisco Montilla 24,290 Independent Advisor

Hello,

You are right. On office.com there is no single Clear all for Quick access or Recent today. The supported way is to remove items from your view.

Sign in at office.com, go to Home or My content, hover the file card you want to hide, open More options... and choose Remove from list. You can select multiple items with their checkboxes and use Remove from list to do this in a batch. This only clears your view, It does not delete the files.

If you actually need the files gone, open the item's location in OneDrive or SharePoint from the same menu and delete it there. That removes the file and it will disappear from Quick access and Recent after the page refreshes.

If anything in your tenant looks different, tell me which section you see first on sign in, Home or My content, and I will adapt the steps.

SupportIT Support 0 Reputation points

2025-11-25T10:28:31.67+00:00

When I login to office.com it takes me to the M365 Copilot search page automatically and the files are listed there under recent, shared and favourites. This is the sections I want to erase the files from. The user has no access to the files when I click into them but the names of the files are still listed here and there is no hide or remove option, only delete, which I do not want to do.
Francisco Montilla 24,290 Reputation points Independent Advisor

2025-11-26T06:07:42.7933333+00:00

You are on the new Microsoft 365 home with the Copilot search page. Those Recent, Shared, and Favorites sections are fed by your OneDrive and SharePoint lists, and that page does not offer a Clear all. The reliable way is to remove the items from the source lists in OneDrive so they disappear from the Copilot page.

Open the app launcher at the top left and go to OneDrive.

In OneDrive open the Recent view, select the files you want gone from Recent, then choose Remove from list. This only clears your view and does not delete the files. Next open the Shared view. In Shared with you select the items you no longer want to see and choose Remove from list. Do the same in Shared by you if needed. Then open Favorites, select the items, and choose Remove from favorites. Go back to office.com and refresh. The same files should no longer appear under Recent, Shared, or Favorites on the Copilot page.

If some entries still remain after that, they are likely coming from a SharePoint site rather than OneDrive. Tell me one of those filenames and I will give you the exact SharePoint steps to remove them without deleting anything.

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