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"Recent Documents" web part in modern experience | filters needed
I have added the "Recent Documents" web part. It looks like the only thing I can change for the web part is the no of documents to display. I would like to have filters to exclude files like onenote from showing there because the way it displays the onenote and open it is a bit confusing compared to other office files (excel/word/ppt). Is there a way to exclude certain type of files here ?
Hi Moreno Fernandes ! Go to your doc library, search for the FILTER icon in the right top of that document list view. Click on your Filter icon. Select all docx, xlsx, pdf ... files you know. OneNote is listed without any type anymore, so filtering is a bit annoying. But I post 3 screenshots in here to give you a 3 step checklist to do hat what you plan to filter:
1) Filter icon
2) activate filetypes you want to see.
3) The left icon to the filter icon is the default view title, like "All Documents", which has a *, if it was already changed, by filtering it, or sorting it.Because of that you have to save the changed view with a new Name, such as "All but OneNote" for instance. Click on "All Documents" and click on the second last option in this menu to save the changed view.
Hope you find useful.
Greets, Eva.
Hi Eva Vogel , Thanks for your response. The "recent Documents" web part shows the recent documents viewed/modified by me me from various libraries and sites including onedrive. It is not specific to a particular document library.
I was able to achieve this by using the "Highlighted content" web part.
This web part allows to add filters to display documents by Type, modified/created by etc
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