Recent Items: Documents Some never show up

One thing that annoys me no end is that spreadsheets I open frequently, only intermittently show up in the Recent Items: Documents list and some never show up.
Any ideas? Besides dumping Microsoft Office 2008.
Thanks.

Nope, sorry, that’s all history now, I could not see that the next day.
I wanted to submit a question, but it
Did not show up Sept 01, 08:51:
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0e00d94b-32a6-444f-aef1-b0b112200693/where-to-go-when-a-forum-is-not-maintained?forum=whatforum
Then I wrote and it did not show up (10:08):
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cdba1ec7-8567-47a9-a7fb-0461e2162d30/some-threads-will-never-show-up?forum=reportabug
So I wrote a posting to the existing thread (10:12):
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/aa1c84f1-84fe-4b40-9b7b-7948d733ceda/forum-page-not-updating-again?forum=reportabug
checked and tried again, nada, posted again (10:28) there and left
(without noticing that at 10:26 Dave Patrick replied to my first question / thread that did not show up).
Again, that’s all gone now.
Only that my first mentioned thread is still open,
I could not email fissues at …
and the postmaster rejects email because of “possibly mail loop”,
and the ICE forum is still dead.
So, um, … ?

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