Office desktop icons move after an update

Hello,

I've noticed some annoying behavior on desktop. It seems after I update a Word or Excel document (saved to the desktop), the desktop icon, moves to another location. Sometimes to the empty space on my right. Or anywhere else out of the order I saved it at.

It doesn't stay in the same spot. Right mouse clicking has no particular "sort by" chosen and that's deliberate by choice. The same way I had it on previous versions of Windows.

Is there anyway to lock these desktop icons down so they don't move unless I want them to move? Or an Office setting that prevents this behavior?

Windows 10 Pro 22H2 64bit

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PS: It doesn't happen with any other icon or text documents saved to my desktop. Just the MS Office ones.

It's interesting that only the MS Office icons move by themselves as I mentioned up above. The DesktopOK hack also looks interesting but I hope it isn't overkill since the rest of my icons already stay in place.

Also desktop resolution is never a problem since I'm on a 14" laptop and I don't change it any. I don't want any program to mess with that and make things more complicated.

Longshot: never noticed this issue, but I don’t keep office docs on the desktop. Could be to do with how office saves the updated file (create new then clear old, or similar?). Have you tried saving shortcuts to them, rather than the files themselves? That way the desktop contents should not change, and thus the icons may not move.

Sent via 6S while on holiday, so can’t test

Do your settings look like this?





I use the program DesktopOK and what it does is profile your current icon arrangement so if you change resolution or mess up all of your icon placements, a one clink hit in DesktopOK will rearrange all the icons back to where they were based on the last saved profile. Or any saved profile for that matter...


Here's a fantastic special fix... Create a folder on the desktop and name it Docs or Office Docs or whatever. Now save all Docs to that folder...

F22 Simpilot said:

Do your settings look like this?

Exactly!

Somebody also mentioned Stardock's Fences which would look great on a big screen monitor, but not on my scrawny 14" laptop.

Plus I only have about 18 icons on my desktop, so it's not a whole lot. I'm just looking for a simple solution without a lot of bells & whistles attached to it.