Windows 10: Excel file sticks to Taskbar

I pinned one Excel file to the taskbar. Despite I click on "Unpin from this list" icon, it keeps sticking to the taskbar. I pinned another Excel file to the taskbar and unpinned it easily. Thus, this is the only Excel file affected. Help me to unpin it

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Trying to move desktop icon to the task bar. Cannot make it “stick” to the taskbar

Hi,

To assist you further, let me ask.

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  When you say “Trying to move desktop icon to the task bar”, you mean pin the excel workbook to the task bar?
  
• what exactly when you try to stick the excel file to the taskbar?

If you are trying to pin the excel workbook to the taskbar.

Follow the steps below.

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  Click on the start menu, select the icon and right-click on the icon.
  
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  From the list, select pin it to taskbar or pin it to start.
  

Also, you can drag the icon from the desktop and drop on the task bar.

I hope the information is helpful and if the issue still persists, we’ll be glad to assists you.

Thank you.

 

MS Excel - most recent files - how can i limit the number of files (*IN TASKBAR RECENT LIST)?

That doesnt change the Excel taskbar list most recent amount. Thanks for trying though.

Question is about the taskbar...not Excel itself really. Used to be able to limit the most recent amount through taskbar properties. The list is wayy too long.

When i right click Excel icon in taskbar... i see a list of most recent files under the pinned files. I want that list reduced. Your suggested adjustments dont do anything to the list i am talking about. Those change the list when u open a new blank excel
file.

Need a way to limit the list of recent files on the icon on the taskbar. Let me know if there is a way. this is unresolved. NOt sure why this is so difficult. Used to be able to do it with Office 2013 on windows 7 machine. Need that recent list limited.

 

Cannot unpin an Excel file from the Taskbar

Long ago I pinned an Excel file to the Windows 10 taskbar. This means that if I right click on the Excel icon, which is also pinned to the taskbar, a pop-up list of file names appears with the pinned file at the top.

The pinned file has an "Unpin from this list" icon beside it. If I click on the unpin icon, nothing happens. I tried pinning another Excel file to the taskbar and was able to unpin it. The problem seems to affect only this one file, pinned long ago.

I have Googled and tried many posts for removing a pinned item (file, not an app) from the taskbar. None of them have worked.

How can I unpin this Excel file?

Thanks!