Question How to disable recent location list during save as?

[smalltech]

Hello,

After creating a Microsoft Word document I click File>Save As and a list of recent saved location automatically appears, screenshot

https://imgur.com/GZoPp0Z

View: https://i.imgur.com/GZoPp0Z.png

How to disable the list of recent saved location from appearing?

(Note: I do not want the list to appear at all, even though now I can right click each row and select [Remove from list] to delete row by row)

Thanks
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Update: I found the answer. Do these steps, file>options>advanced>Show this number of unpinned Recent Folders: [0]>ok

 

[kerberos_20]

i dont think you can disable it, save locations are stored in win registry, you could probably clear it with .reg file (for advanced users)

key path for it is
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\User MRU
then some live id with random letters/numbers (your session id)
and inside it is File MRU and Place MRU