Finding Most Recent Excel File Path Within LabVIEW

Updated Sep 25, 2023

Environment

Software

  • LabVIEW

In this article, you will be able to programmatically retrieve the most recent file path of an Excel file within LabVIEW. 

You can use the following setup to obtain the most recent file path for Excel:

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You can use LabVIEW ActiveX built in functions to to create your Excel Reference and for more information about the RecentFiles Object, check out Microsoft's documentation. 

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