Windows 10: How can I add Office programs to the Most Used area?

I use Excel all the time but it doesn't show up in the Most Used area. When apps are in that section they get the little pop out window so I can go directly to a specific XLS file without having to open Excel first and then go open it.

Is there any way to force Excel to go into that list? It was in there on my previous computer but I just can't get it in there on my current one.

Thanks!

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How to add apps to the most used apps list on the startup menu in Windows 10?

There are 6 apps listed as most used. How do I add more? I'd like to have about 10 or 12.

 

How to add apps to the most used apps list on the startup menu in Windows 10?

Hi Jessie,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand that you would like to increase the number of apps listed under Most used app in the start menu in Windows 10. I will be glad to assist you.

I would like to inform you that you cannot increase the number of apps situated under the Most used apps. The maximum number of apps which it can show at a time is 6. The number of apps you go on using recently, it will be shown
rotation by rotation in the most used apps but at a time it can show you only 6 most recent apps that you have used.

Hope the above information was helpful. If you need further assistance, please do let us know and we would be happy to help you.

Thank you.

 

Try this tutorial -
All apps in Start menu - Add or Remove Items in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

Well, that talks about All Apps which isn't what I need. There is another tutorial linked in that one that references the MOST USED section but only talks about Removing something from Most Used and not adding.

See attached for where I want Excel to show up (red box) so I can get it with the little pop out arrow things (green box).

 

Why do you need that when you have a nice big unmissable tile to click - I turn off all but new apps.

With new menu design in RS1, these sub menus get in the way even more.

 

I also Pin to Start frequently used programs to the list of Tiles which puts them at the bottom then click and drag them up to the top or Commonly Used section.

 

Because the tile doesn't support the pop out menu to let me choose a specific file that I want to open. I have to click the tile and let Excel open, then click the file I want to open. It's easier to just click the arrow on Excel from the Most Used area and then pick the file right off the Jump list.

 

I don't use the frequent or most used lists on Start either. Most used go on the Taskbar and less most used go on Start. There are a limited number of items stored on Most Used (10?) - I forget if it can be scrolled. If you remove other items from the list, Excel might become visible. When I played around with these features in the Preview, I removed everything from the lists and let them be rebuilt as I worked.

If you pin most used apps to the Taskbar, you should be able to use the jumplist to select the file (unless it gets rolled off the list by other files)

 

Fair enough but you probably will not like new design then as much.

 

Here's the exact problem I'm having, although I don't think I never manually removed any office programs from my Most Used list.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...238ed95?page=4

 

Interesting, I'm using Win10 Version 1511 Build 10586.494 and if I Pin to Start my Excel immediately comes off the Most Used list to show up in the Tiles. If I then Unpin from Start [Tiles] it immediately shows up again on the Most Used. The exact same thing happens with Word. And it works the same with WordPerfect X7. Guess one has to make a choice of how/where to display the shortcuts.

 

I could kiss you right now. Well, maybe not since I don't know anything about you.

I guess I had manually pinned Excel to the Start area which removed it from the Most Used area. I just unpinned it from Start which put it back in Most Used. Why the heck those two areas are mutually exclusive makes no sense to me but that's Microsoft for you.

Thanks!

 

Same thought.

It could be Microsoft is trying to reduce things on the Start menu to lessen redundancy which in turn helps performance of the computer, albeit maybe in small ways.

 

sideNote: I booted up Win10, went to Start, right clicked on cCleaner (known to have a jumplist) and ... and
the jumplist is available from the tile on Start.