Synching Recent List in Word, Excel, PowerPoint between Laptops

My Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files sync fine between my Macbook Air M3 and my Windows 11 laptop using OneDrive.

However, I have a problem with the Recent list of each of those apps on my Win11 laptop synching properly with the Recent list on my Mac. For example, if I work on a Word doc and save it on my Mac, that doc does not show up in the Recent list in Word on my Win11 laptop (the file does get saved and synched with OneDrive on my Win11 laptop). That same doc is listed in the Recent list on my Mac. Why is my Win11 laptop not synching the Recent list properly with the Recent list on my Mac? Both my Win11 laptop and my Macbook Air are fully up to date and so is the OneDrive app.

office 365 or a standalone install?

Office 365 yearly subscription.

are these settings set correctly for both (for all programs, not just powepoint - just a ref image):

Yes, those settings are the same way on my Win11 laptop. I also just found out that if I save a doc on my Win11 laptop, it will show up in the Recent list on my Macbook Air. However, as I said in my original post, it does not seems to work going from my Mac to my Win11 laptop.

try the following (this is for excel, but if it works for excel it should work for the rest as well):

Close all Office 365 app for Mac applications.
From Finder Go/Go to Folder (Shift+Cmd+G).
Enter "~/Library/Containers" and press Go (Return key).
Find the "com.microsoft.excel" folder.
Select and delete that folder using File/Move to Trash (Cmd+Delete).
Restart the Mac to see the result.

.https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/excel-365-for-mac-is-not-listing-my-recent-files/c984b3aa-d54d-445a-9e74-df70536513d4

My ~/Library/Containers folder does not have any "com.microsoft.excel" folders (or Word or PP - only for OneNote and Teams). What next? Thx.