How to delete recently opened items numbers

Do want to actually delete the documents, or just remove them from recents?

If you want to delete them you can try navigating in Finder to where they are stored, and delete them in the usual way: command-delete.

SG

BE_Jason wrote:

would like to close only recently opened documents from the shortcut menu.

"Close" or "delete"? Two very different things, of course.

You may find some useful information in this support document:

Open recently used items on Mac - Apple Support

SG

No problem. See the support document I linked to. Toward the bottom may be sections that help.

SG