Open recently used files by Office directly from Alfred

[jona]

When you open Excel, Word or Powerpoint it shows a panel with the latest used files by the app. This workflow fetches those files and displays them directly in Alfred so you can open them directly. You can also narrow down the files by typing a port of the folder or filename.

 

 

It only works withe the latest version of office, though. So Office 2011 won't work.

 

You can grab it over here: https://github.com/stroebjo/alfred-recent-office/releases/latest

 

If you have any feedback or suggestions please let me know!

Edited March 12, 2016 by jona

[deanishe]

I'd suggest using a proper XML library to generate the XML (Python has several built in). The workflow chokes on files with & in the path because it doesn't escape any of the XML values.

[jona]

Thanks for the tip! That definitely makes sense. I just pushed a new Version to the GitHub Link with the changes. It should display files with an & correctly now.