A simpler way is to press Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen and click on the file you want to
remove from the menu.

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"Tosca" wrote in message
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Perfect - I did it from the "Immediate" window. Thank you.

"Andy" wrote in message
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something similar is available in Excel?


This in a macro:

Application.RecentFiles(1).Delete