Options are good.

After installing OpenOffice and pinning a few of the apps to the top of the start menu I noticed there is an arrow next to each of the applications which shows recent documents opened by the program.

But after creating many documents, only one or two of these documents were shown.  While they were available in the recent documents of the file menu of the program itself, these documents were not showing in the Start Menu.  Irritating enough for me to look into it a bit more.

Windows 7 Start Menu Recent Items

To get them showing up in the list you have to open the document through the file system, meaning you have to open it through Windows Explorer in order for the documents to appear in the start menu list.  Creating a new document and saving it from the application just doesn’t work to get it displayed here.