On my system, hovering the cursor over the recent file name pops up a
tooltip showing the complete path. Does that happen for your user and, if
so, is that not sufficient?
I'm not aware of any other way to see the full path, but then I am still
kind of new to XL2007 and could be missing something. I looked for some kind
of option before answering you and found nothing obvious, so it is possible
this is one of the "improvements" Microsoft made to XL2007.<g>