CAN'T PIN FOLDERS ANYMORE IN EXCEL/WORD 2016

Yes, as I mentioned earlier, there is very little enforced consistency, few "standards", in the design of applications in the Office "Suite". You have pointed out one of the recently introduced inconsistencies.

My favorite is the handling of the number of colors supported by various features.  For a while, there where at least 3 different upper limits on the numbers of colors supported by various features.  At least in 2016 they have reduced that to 2 standards, the "original 16" colors which are the limit for the "Highlight" feature, and 16.7 million colors in 24 bit color support in the "Custom" tab.  You can also still see support for the intermediate 128 colors in the Hexagon color picker in the "Standard" color tab.

As said, the weird thing is that Word 2016 folders are showing up in Save As,

but not in Excel.

I have used Excel quite a lot, but the folders shown there, remain just 'Documents' and 'Desktop'

No folders are displayed, contrary to Word 2016.

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Mike:

Yes, there area inconsistencies between Word and Excel. Long ago, MS made a conscious decision to allow the separate programs in the Office "suite" to "do their own thing" within very broad guidelines. The result is that the same feature can have different names and icons in the different applications.  Another sign of this is the recent change in Excel. In Office 2016 some genius (with the IQ of a pet rock, IMHO. Or maybe it was a committee2

) decided to change, to "improve" The File OPEN/Recent and File SAVE/SAVE AS dialogs, removing the option to pin folders and changing the sort order to date. While this makes sense for a MRU, Most Recently Used list, many of us were happier with the alphabetical sort order for longer term organization of pinned files and folders.   And just recently, ONLY the Excel developers responded to a UserVoice change request to return to alpha sort order. So now in Word 2016 you still see "recent" files in date order, while for Office Insiders in Excel they are back to Alpha order (the fix has not yet been released to the general public). 

Confusion reigns.

One way or the other the behavior looks a bit inconsistent (Excel vs Word).

It seems with Word 2016 within  Save As  'older' folders can be pinned. For instance folders of last week.

However, these same folders are not pinned in case of File Open.

Unsure about Excel.

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No doubt they have added some new stuff. Then again, this was a very handy feature and I am not the only one complaining about the fact that it has been removed.

Actually, as said, this was the first things I did, so this means a lot to me, and to others.

Just search for "Restore pinned folders in Save options in all Office products" 

One way or the ohter I see a few 'pins'  behind folders in Word 2016 - Have no idea how they goth there as pinning option simply isn't available.

Excel still fails it though.

Anyway, maybe one day it will be back. That aside, the 2013 Save as dialog simply looks much nicer, though, admittedly, its a matter of taste.