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How do I pin a specific document to the desktop taskbar?
(I'm new to Win8. Appologies if I'm not using the proper/exacting terms.)
I could swear that I was able to right-click-drag-drop a file from Explorer to the desktop taskbar such that the pinned icon (traditionally called a "shortcut" - I don't know if it's unclear to call it that now) would launch only that document.
But now a week later I just removed unused pannels from the Win8-Splash-Strart screen, and rearanged the icons on the taskbar and the same icon/shortcut now launches the application with a blank document. ???
I'm now only able to pin documents to the application - as a kind of managing wrapper. I can hover over the "shortcut" and select one of many, but I just want an icon to launch a spicific document - like I've been doing with Windows documents for 30+ years.
What am I missing?
Thanks!
(I'm new to Win8. Appologies if I'm not using the proper/exacting terms.)
I could swear that I was able to right-click-drag-drop a file from Explorer to the desktop taskbar such that the pinned icon (traditionally called a "shortcut" - I don't know if it's unclear to call it that now) would launch only that document.
But now a week later I just removed unused pannels from the Win8-Splash-Strart screen, and rearanged the icons on the taskbar and the same icon/shortcut now launches the application with a blank document. ???
I'm now only able to pin documents to the application - as a kind of managing wrapper. I can hover over the "shortcut" and select one of many, but I just want an icon to launch a spicific document - like I've been doing with Windows documents for 30+ years.
What am I missing?
Thanks!
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