Can’t pin to taskbar.

Right-click on the desktop.
Select “New -> Shortcut.”
Type explorer "C:\path\to\excel\file.xlsx".
Replace the dummy file path with the actual file path.
Click “Next.”
Type a name for the shortcut.
Click “Finish.”
Drag and drop the shortcut on to taskbar.
The excel file is now pinned to the taskbar.

Or you can try:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15.......or whatever you have.
Find the Excel file in explorer, right-click, select "Send to" and click on "Desktop [create shortcut]". From the desktop, you can drop the shortcut to the taskbar.

1 Reflection said:

I use MS Office 2003.
I want to pin EACH of these to the TaskBar, but can find no successful way of doing it.

You need to manually alter each of your shortcuts to make them pinnable. Here's how you can do it.

1 Right-click on each shortcut & select Properties. They will open at their Shortcut tab.

2 In the Target box, you'll see the path & filename. Something like C:\Users\Denis\Desktop\History.xls

3 In front of that, copy and paste in
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office11\Excel.exe"
followed by a space. Don't leave out the quotation marks or the space.
[If you want to check that path is correct, you can browse to that folder in File explorer to take a look.]

4 So you'll end up with something like
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office11\Excel.exe" C:\Users\Denis\Desktop\History.xls
but you won't be able to see all of it at once.


5 Click on the OK button and the Properties dialog box will disappear.

6 Now you can right-click and select Pin to taskbar.

I've been long-winded in the hope of helping you avoid mistakes. It'll take you less time to do the job than it took you to read this post.


If, in the future, you need to pin a shortcut to another application's file to your taskbar then the procedure will be the same - precede the shortcut's Target field with the full path to the application's .exe file followed by a space.
- The full path needs to be wrapped with quotation marks if it contains any spaces or any special characters such as ampersands [&].
- If you make a shortcut to a file that includes any spaces or any special characters in its name or its path then you'll notice that Windows will automatically include quotation marks around it. They are in addition to any that are needed by the application's exe file's path. So, to use the example above, you might end with something like this
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office11\Excel.exe" "C:\Users\Terry & June\Desktop\History.xls"

If, in the future, you need to pin a shortcut to a File explorer folder then that's similar but all you need to precede the Target with is explorer.exe followed by a space.



Best of luck,
Denis

Only the bits south of the water.

I'm glad your shortcut problem has been solved.


All the best,
Denis

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