When you work with the same workbooks over and over again, you may want to come up with a quick way to get to those workbooks. This can be easily done in Excel; just follow these steps if you are using Excel 2007:
If you are using Excel 2010 or a later version, then the steps are slightly different:
That's it. You can now access these commonly used workbooks at any time by simply displaying the recent workbook list where they will always be shown at the top of the list.
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2020-08-16 10:12:09
John Mann
Another technique I have used is to create a desktop short-cut to some of my frequently used files. I also use the method in this tip.
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