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In Excel 2013, you just do it by going to File > open > Recent Workbooks > choose the first in the list.

But can this be done by code ? Seems easy enough to do, but i didn't find any clue, here or on the net.

note, i think i need the name + full path of the file , and then a simple workbooks.open Filename, will do.

Also note, no workbooks are opened at this time, and thisworkbook.name is not elligible (or it will loop infinitely to open himself).

i was thinking of something like

Dim a as Long Dim i as Long Dim Str as String a= Application.OpenworkbooksHistory.items.count For i=1 to a str = Application.OpenworkbooksHistory.items (i) if str<>thisworkbook.path & "\" & thisworkbook.name then workbooks.open str exit sub end if next i
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You'll find a collection of recent files in Application.RecentFiles

To open the last one just use Workbooks.open Application.REcentFiles(1)

Or you could loop through them if you want something more fancy:

For each rfile in application.recentfiles if instr(1, rfile.name, "poop") > 0 then Workbooks.open rfile.name end if next
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excellent! thats excactly it. You forgot a .name on the 2nd line of your answer.

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