Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Grabbing the MRU List.
Excel allows you to maintain a list of the most-recently used (MRU) files. This list can record the names of up to the last nine workbooks opened and edited within Excel. Understand that nine workbooks is the default; the user can actually change the number of workbooks that can be maintained in the list. See the tip MRU Files Won't Display for more information.
If you want to grab the names of the MRU files and insert those names in a worksheet, you can use the following macro:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub MostRecent()
Dim J As Integer
For J = 1 To Application.RecentFiles.Count
Cells(J, 1) = Application.RecentFiles(J).Name
Next J
End Sub
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2020-06-08 01:31:19
KV
@RKeev ... changing the .name to .path doesn't seem to work. It simply reproduces the MRU file list.
I suspect that is because the code is still referring to Application.RecentFiles.
There doesn't seem to be any VBA equivalent for the object folders specifically, like say: Application.RecentFolders.
(I tried changing Application.RecentFiles to Application.RecentFolders, and it gave an error.)
2020-06-04 08:15:35
RKeev
Just change the .name to .Path
2020-06-04 08:02:53
David Zman
Would be nice if it included the full path to the files listed.
2015-03-21 13:46:34
Khushnood Viccaji
Is there any way to grab the MRU folders list?
I use the files list regularly in VBA code to manage the list.
But I haven't been able to find any code for the folders list.
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