Removing items from File/Recent Documents

The Recent Documents menu item displays numbers (1 to 10 in my case) ahead of the document name. Does LO let me delete a single document name and leave the remainder in place? (I know this is a simple thing to achieve 'cos some years back I coded it in Windows software of my own.)

In the opening screen, before you have chosen a module, you can filter for documents, spreadsheets, etc. Click the cross in the top right corner on individual recent documents to remove them from Recent documents

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Heh, no, this is not a simple thing to achieve - because we are not a Windows-only software, and we have to behave consistently across different OSes. IIRC modifying menus with funny extensions is not trivial, and is frowned upon, on macOS. That limits the flexibility here.

Thank you Earnest!

Removing items from the start-up display is much too cumbersome because it requires restarting the program. I would much rather the feature was available directly from within the program.

In addition, I usually start up Writer directly and do not usually see the display you referred to.

I notice that right clicking an item on the Recent Documents menu behaves much as a left click so why not use the right click to launch a Yes/No requester with the question "Remove this item from the Recent Documents list? // (Replying ‘Yes’ does not delete the file.) " A ‘Yes’ reply removes the item from the list and shuffles it shut, ‘No’ does nothing.

RichardL