List of Recent Documents not showing up in Task Bar or Start Menu.

List of Recent Documents is not showing up in either Task Bar or Start Menu.  In word and Excel recent documents shows while pressing Office Button. In both Excel and Excel Options / Advanced, and selected to display 15 recent documents, but they're not showing up.

Cause :
Check the recent document list within application. If its fine then there might some corruption in the recent items stored in ‘AutomaticDestinations’ folder.

To resolve and fix the issue, follow these steps:

1)   Browse to the location mentioned : %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

Note: the folder ‘AutomaticDestinations’ is hidden

2)   Delete all the files

Reopen Word files and Excel file, now you can see Recent documents in both Start Menu and Task Bar