This list of workbooks is entirely different than the MRU. This list of workbooks is unlike the older MRU list, in that you can display more of them.īoth Excel 2010 and Excel 2013 have a different place that you can display an MRU list: at the bottom of the left side of the File tab pane. This setting controls the number of listings shown in the Recent Documents list when you click the Office button (Excel 2007), display the File tab of the ribbon (Excel 2010), or display the File tab of the ribbon and click Open (later versions of Excel).

Change the first control in the group (Show this Number of Recent Documents) to reflect the number of MRU listings you want.

The Advanced section of the Excel Options dialog box.

Scroll through the available options until you find the Display group.

At the left side of the dialog box, click Advanced.

In Excel 2010 and later versions display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) (In Excel 2007 click the Office button and then click Excel Options.

First, turn on the MRU list in this manner: There are a couple of things you should check in this regard. It is possible that something could be being missed. Ian noted that he can't get Excel to display the MRU list and is wondering if he is missing something. The purpose of the list is to make it easier to access the files you were recently working on.

MRU is an acronym for Most Recently Used and indicates a list of the most recently opened workbooks within Excel.

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