Startmenu: Cannot pin files in Notepad, Excel

[CharlesT]

Greetings

When I expand recent files in Notepad or Excel via startmenu and click the "Pin to this list" or "Unpin from this list" nothing happens. Interestingly, this is only the case for certain programs (Notepad and Excel so far) while others (Wordpad, Firefox, Paint.NET) have the correct behavior.

Was the error there at install: No.
Frequency: Always.
OS: Windows 8.1 Pro N

Any hints on where to investigate further much appreciated Thank you kindly.

 

[mrjimphelps]

One way you could accomplish this is to create a shortcut to open the file, then pin the shortcut to the list.

For text files, your shortcut will execute the following command: NOTEPAD "c:\temp\testfile.txt". (Change the program name, path, and filename as needed.)

So although a text file won't pin to the list, I'll bet you can pin a shortcut to the list.

 

[CharlesT]

Not a solution, exactly, but a very good suggestion! I can manually pin a folder containing the desired text shortcuts. Thank you kindly for the the tip.