Windows 10: Hello. I cannot pin files to the start menu. I can do files and apps, but not files.

I have tried to pin two Excel files to the start menu and I am not offered the option of pinning them to the start menu. I have tried doing it with shortcuts and almost any other idea that I have read online. My Windows 11 is up to date. Could you tell me what I am doing wrong? Than you

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Unable to Pin a File to Start Menu App

Pinning files to an app's Start Menu icon seems to be an ongoing OS problem in Win 10, MS Office 365.

I have MS Office 365 installed and updated. The apps are all on the Start Menu, Word and Excel are pinned there. When I right-click on the Word app icon, the context menu and MRU list is displayed with a single pinned file and a list of recent files.
If I right-click on one of those recent files and select "Pin to this list" or click on the pin icon on the right, the file replaces the one in the pinned section. Attempts to pin any file simply replaces the one that's there. It appears that I can have
only one file pinned at a time.

The files I'm trying to pin exist. I can open them from the MRU list.

This doesn't happen with the Excel MRU list, just Word's.

Troubleshooter reports no problems. SFC reports no problems. Win 10 is fully updated as of today.

Please, don't ask me to reset the OS or reinstall Office...those solutions are overkill and just desperate attempts at proper troubleshooting.

 

How to pin an Excel 2007 file to the W10 Start fly-out menu

Thanks Annu.

In Method 1, at step 2, the file I want doesn't already appear in the Start menu. Do mean to browse to the file I want in the File Explorer? If I right click on the file in the File Explorer, "Pin to Start menu" is not an option.

In Method 2, at step 4, I release the left button, but the file doesn't appear anywhere in the Start Menu afterwards. It's not listed along with my Most Used apps, and it's not pinned in the Jump Menu of Excel 2007.

Maybe I misunderstood something in your directions?

Cheers,

Vince

 

Pin a file to the start menu in win 10

Hello,

We want to pin a filemaker file to the start menu but when we right click the file we can't see pin to start so , we created a shortcut to the desktop for the file but still no pin to start when right clicking on the shortcut link.

Our next step was to change the register

still no succes in findeing the pin to start .

could someone help us out ? We reallu need to pin this file to start menu

Thanks