CAN'T PIN FOLDERS ANYMORE IN EXCEL/WORD 2016

Mike:

Gee, talk about a lack of gratitude. <grin>

You don't even recognize a "new & improved" feature when you see it.  They removed the "clutter" of pinned folders and replaced it with the very "neat" "add a place" in the cloud ... MS is all about the cloud.  They now expect you to pin your favorite folders using the Explorer "Quick Access" feature. That ignores the idea that we might (really DO!) use different sets of folders for Word and Excel and other daily work, and don't want to clutter our Explorer UI with them!

Actually as a "late comer" you missed out on another "improvement".  If you look carefully in Word you will see that the "Recent" list is now sorted by date, making it a true "most recently used" list.  Except, for a lot of us (apparently including you) the pinned list is supposed to be permanent. Many of us prefer the old alphabetical sort order because we could control it using prefixes in the file name.   Many people complained, and the Excel team recently "fixed" it to return to alpha order. Too bad the Word programmers haven't listened ... 

For the excel team that "improvement" was a "two-fer". They got brownie points for making the "improvement" in the initial release, and again for reacting to "user feedback".

Me too.

When installing Excel and Word, first thing I do is pin all the frequently used folders.

In fact, in all those folders I have a small empty Excel sheet, that I open/close one by one.

Then relaunch Excel and I could pin the 'favorite' folders easily, without too much browse-click-click-browse...

Just purchased 2016 and wanted to do the same as always and had to find out here that MS removed this handy feature.

They don't seem to have a sensible explanation for that.

Coding is too complex  maybe?

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Buying a keyboard is not a feasible solution for a very useful feature that used to be part of MS Office.  Furthermore, not everyone wants to lug a Logitech keyboard around in their laptop backpacks ;)

This is just stupid that MS removed this functionality...

Sorry I can't help you there. I am not a Microsoft person or a programmer. Just a user like you.

However I did buy a Logitech programmable keyboard. It has dual purpose function keys. The have nice little icons on them and are set to open messenger or mail or pictures etc. I reprogrammed them (easy) to open folders, programs and files that I use often. There is about a dozen choices. If you need more, look for a more programmable keyboard.

Good luck

Me too! I have not seen a single case where the new "save/save as" is better or more useful than the old one (that allowed pinned folders).

It amazes me that Microsoft has not provided us with a simple excuse to make the change.