This is not a small task, and (quite honestly) the amount of time required to develop such a macro would make such an approach 'overkill' for what David really needs. The typical way of doing this would be to create a UserForm to display the files, use that UserForm to allow the user to specify the files, and then open the ones selected. The problem is presenting what you grab to the user and then allowing the user to select only a subset of what you grabbed. Grabbing the files isn't the problem, though. The MRU files can be grabbed in a macro using the technique described in this tip: Grabbing the MRU List It may be possible to create a macro to present the files in the MRU and allow some to be selected to open, but this is no small undertaking. These approaches, though, require that all the files you want to open be located in the same folder-a prerequisite that is not necessary for files in the MRU. How to select multiple files that are not grouped together: Click on the first file, and then press and hold the Ctrl key. This will select all files between the two options. While holding Shift, click on the last file. You can select multiple files at once using the following shortcuts: Hold down. Most people who work with multiple files at once use either the Windows Explorer to locate the files in a single folder, or they use the Open dialog box, as described in this tip: Opening Multiple Documents at Once To select multiple files click on the first file, and then press and hold the Shift key. You can also click the name of the file or folder once, wait one second. the server code to accept multiple files, it made.

What David wants to do-select multiple files in the MRU in order to open them all at once-is something I've not been able to discover a way to do. This will signal to the browser that the input field is allowed to select more than one file at a time.

(It has been this way since the advent of Word 2010.) You can read about this at this tip: Understanding MRU Files In reality, these days Word maintains two semi-related MRU lists. The list of files that David sees is most often referred to as the 'MRU list' or the 'MRU files.' MRU is an acronym for 'most recently used,' and these files are (as you might guess) the files most recently used by David on his system. Yes, multiple files can be uploaded to Overleaf in one go when using the uploader, simply select multiple files as usual (by holding down shift or ctrl. David wonders if there is a way that he can choose to open two (or more) of the files that appear in that list.

When he clicks the File tab of the ribbon, he can see a list of recently opened files.

Many times David regularly works on a limited set of documents.

Select multiple files at once