Windows 10: Pinned Office Files do not Stay Pinned; No Recent Files List; [Jump Lists]

I ran into a problem again recently when I was helping set up a coworker's workspace.


Right-clicking on office programs in the Task Bar for me always shows my recently opened files and files I have pinned there. His weren't showing recent files at all. He could pin files, but they dropped off the list once they were closed.


I searched the web and found MANY unanswered question posts about this. I'm hoping this might help someone. If anything, it will help me the next time I forget.


The feature that allows you to see those recent and pinned files is called Jump Lists. I don't know if it was the admins at our company or if it is off by default, but Jump Lists were turned off. If you are having this issue on your work computer, your first step is to make sure Jump Lists are turned on.


You can turn on Jump Lists in these settings:


Windows Settings > Personalization > Start > Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar Toggle it On.


You could also just search for Jump within the start menu to get to these settings.

:)

 

Pin or Unpin Items on Jump Lists in Windows 10


Hi, Shawn. Been learning a few things. A solution to my "Pin file to" in File Explorer context menu problem. Not sure to call these jump lists or context menus. You may want to add this to your tutorial here, for it deals with the Office apps Start tiles' jump lists/context menus. Right click on an Office app tile and pin a recently opened file to the jump list/context menu.

Here's the Word tile list/menu. This works in Publisher, PowerPoint, Excel, and Access.

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Anther handy quick list in Office Outlook.

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Even the Paint tile has a Recent list to pin a file to a jump list. I'd imagine any "creative" app will have the same.

If you don't want to add here, I can make a tute on the subject, that's if there is not one already.

 

Recent File List

that's all off already dude lol, I'm really surprised there is no fix for the recent files list/MRU in the file menu of programs haha

I appreciate the help, MS really needs to implement a Group Policy or a string that can do that for all programs installed

 

Pinned stuff on jump lists

I quite like the jump lists. I use them on IE11, Mozilla and file explorer quite a bit. Each of these are pinned to my task bar. If I right click say IE11 I can see the jump list for frequent tasks such as private browsing, frequent sites and then I have pinned some sites. Same for file explorer where I’ve pinned some folders. Trouble is after a restart if I initially right click on one of these all my pinned things show generic icons. But it only does this on the first right click, if I do it again all is normal. And it only affects things that I have pinned and not the default actions on said jump list. Example, I right click
IE11 and all the pinned sites show as a generic white sheet of paper icon as opposed to their website fav icon. Next right click the fav icons all show. Same with file explorer, first right click pinned folders like photos, videos show as generic yellow folder icon. Next right click the normal icons show up. All then ok until I next login/boot. Strange annoyance that most people haven’t prob noticed but it irks me. I unticked jump list recent items in settings and enabled again but it made no difference. It’s hard to explain and impossible to capture a screenshot to show

thanks
Wayne