I can not pin folders anymore in excel or word 2016 ***Post moved by the moderator to the appropriate forum category.***

CAN'T PIN FOLDERS ANYMORE IN EXCEL/WORD 2016

Anonymous

No File -> Feedback -> Add Feedback button in my Excel 2016 version. Did they drop this as well?

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Anonymous

I don't see the File > Feedback on either my Win 7 or Win 10 computers

I also don't know why Microsoft would remove this essential feature.

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Anonymous

I echo the others--why on earth did they remove this feature? Both at work and at home, there are a number of folders I'm working in all the time, and I want to be able to get to them quickly from within the Office programs. A truly dumb deletion. Microsoft, PUT IT BACK!

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Anonymous

There is no "feedback" button in Office 365.

I agree with everyone who's complaining. This was a useful feature that got removed and I am VERY annoyed. There isn't even any decent workaround.

Microsoft - FIX this! What were you thinking?!!

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Anonymous

Yes, they did. "Pinning" folders the desktop is a band-aid work-around to "fix" the problem created when they "new and improved" the 2016 Recent "Pain" <sic>

Someone at MS had a brain-spasm. Then they were able to sell that idea to management at MS and we got the "new & improved" version of Recent pane. No more pinning folders to the pane and changed sort order to date rather than alpha. Lots of negative feedback on both ... For everyone on this question, if you don't like these changes, complain to MS. This forum is no longer the place to do that. MS has setup subsites on the UserVoice forum to accept user change requests and bug reports. There are real MS staff and management monitoring the suggestions. And there is proof that they have acted on a few of them!

"UserVoice.com" - MS Suggestion box sites

You can use the Office or Windows 10 "feedback" (**)applets but then your suggestions just fall into a black hole. You get no feedback from MS about your feedback.

A better place to submit this type of feedback the "UserVoice" forum. You can submit suggestions like this to the forum either by "voting" and commenting on a similar existing suggestion or by creating a new suggestion for others to vote and comment on.

It is also a good idea to provide cross posted links. Put a link back to this answers.com posting on UserVoice, and add a reply here with a link to your specific posting on UserVoice.

Here are some existing suggestions on the subject. Please "vote" for them and add your comments about the negative impact of these changes

Recently Used List Sort order: Date vs Alpha as of Feb 22, 2016

10 votes https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10137741-recently-used-list-sort-order-date-vs-alpha

144 vote https://excel.uservoice.com/forums/304921-excel-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10261443-recent-files-pane-in-excel-2013-was-pretty-good-b

Excel Suggestion “Under review” Nov 25, 2015 (wow, fast action)

Reinstatement of the option to Pin Folders at:https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/12582018-restore-pinned-folders-in-save-options-in-all-offi

or add your own new suggestion:

Office in general -http://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general

This next link has a longer collection of MS UserVoice.com sites:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows_10-desktop/ms-suggestion-box-sites-at-uservoicecom/7397119c-6d48-49e6-8d94-7bd0a50d214f

Go to UserVoice, either through specific links I’ve provided below or create your own suggestions there. That is where MS is looking specifically for this type of user feedback to bring them back to reality from what-ever lala-land they are working in when they make these "improvements". Comments (and votes) like these in UserVoice helped to convince MS to roll back the "phat QAT" buttons in 2016 and to at least partially undo the 2016 changes to the way the Pen input works.

Please do copy the comments you've made here and paste them into comments in UserVoice. If you make a new suggestion, copy the link to your suggestion and post it back on this question so other people with the same problem can vote for it and comment on it. (You’ll get faster action that way.) Please get all of your friends and co-workers who use Office to vote for your issue!

This blog has a picture to show MS really is looking at UserVoice sites:

http://blog.indezine.com/2016/02/powerpoint-feedback-and-uservoice-does.html

https://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10

Public petition site

Here are links to some of my personal “favorite” specific suggestions:

QAT buttons not showing custom imageshttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12512571-qat-buttons-not-showing-custom-images

Bring back Picture Manger to the Office Bundlehttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/12498702-bring-picture-manager-back-to-office-bundle

Bring back all of the old grammar checking rules -https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/10009743-bring-back-the-valuable-style-checking-tools-that

Petition to MS President to allow Windows Home users control Windows Updateshttps://www.change.org/p/satya-nadella-microsoft-what-computer-users-want-changed-in-windows-10 (The matching UserVoice site has been discontinued by MS)

Don’t want Office 2016 tied to Userid -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10517283-allow-activation-without-the-need-of-a-ms-mail-acc

Actually there are multiple threads with same point. As of Feb 1 2016 there are 785 votes on this question in multiple suggestions

ALLOW Activation without the need of a MS mail account. 386 votes

Office 2016 OEM without LiveID account 138 votes

Office 2016 Activation and installation without an email account 172 votes

return to the same process for activating Office 2016 that was used for all previous versions of Office. No "Live" accounts! 26 Votes

The Office 2016 Activation process is impossible for business's that purchase Microsoft licensing OEM. 70 votes

Activation without a live account. 7 votes

Need Office 2016 activation WITHOUT a Microsoft account! 6 votes

Allow Business Admin Portal to manage Office 1-time payment licenses toohttps://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/11448504-allow-business-admin-portal-to-manage-office-2016

Improve Highlightinghttps://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9389778-improve-highlighting

Make the full spectrum of colors that are available in Shading also available in Highlighting. I often use Highlighting to mark important or unusual text streams and I would like to search for particular colors of Highlighting .

Visio 365 monthly specifically for Consumer licenses -https://office.uservoice.com/forums/285186-general/suggestions/10936428-visio365-monthly-for-consumer-365-users-and-oth

Recreate the single text margin around page like 2010 and earlier -http://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/9253599-bring-back-classic-text-boundaries- Marked as “under Review”, so there is some hope … <grin>

Restore Radial Menu to OneNote439 votes total Feb 20 2016 ****148 votes Include radial menu in desktop onenote

20 votes Radial Menu -

183 votes Bring back the radial fly out menu in the W10 Store version of OneNote -

42 votes Bring back Radial Menu and Camera insert in Windows 10

16 votes- Bring back Radial Menu for Windows 10 App

25 votes- Keep the OneNote Windows 8 UI over the Windows 10 Beta UI

plus a bunch more pen requests

Add mind mapping to OneNote -https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-windows-windows-phone/suggestions/6160979-mindmap-functionality?page=4&per_page=20

Custom installation from Office 365 (2016) / Return MSI installer option - ****https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/9939513-custom-installation-from-office-365-2016

Word 2016 Style Pane bug -mouse pointer wrong https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/11196345-word-2016-style-pane-corrupt-or-buggy-after-update