I've noticed the failure of several macros recently, they worked perfectly
for years under Word 2000 and have stopped with Word 2002. No idea why.

This is typical. It stops at rf.Path with Runtime error 5152: Method 'path'
of object 'RecentFile' failed. When in debug mode, 'Fullname' contains the
full file name/path of the first RecentFile so I don't see how rf.Path and
rf.Name have failed!
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Sub CleanRecentFileList()
' Cleans history on file menu
' if file cannot be seen, it is removed from the list.

 Dim rf As RecentFile, FullName As String
 Const CLEARABSENTNETDOCS As Boolean = False
 ' Change to True to delete docs on absent network drives
 Const CLEARABSENTREMOVABLES As Boolean = True
 ' Change to False to retain docs on absent removable drives
 For Each rf In RecentFiles
   FullName = rf.Path & Application.PathSeparator & rf.Name ' Fails here!

   If FullName = Application.PathSeparator And CLEARABSENTNETDOCS Then
   ' Probably absent network drive
     rf.Delete
   Else
     On Error Resume Next
     ' VBA raises error if file is on absent removable disk
     If Dir(FullName) = "" Then
       If (Err.Number <> 0 And CLEARABSENTREMOVABLES) Or (Err.Number = 0)
Then
         rf.Delete
       End If
       Err.Clear
     End If
     On Error GoTo 0  ' Reinstate normal VBA error handling
   End If
 Next
End Sub
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Any ideas? Is it a missing reference?

Mark