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The title says it all. Whereas in Office 2013 pinned recent items automatically got sorted alphabetically this is no longer the case in any programme in Office 2016. This is extremely frustrating. Any fix?
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Back in my day file names were limited to eight character plus a three digit extension. To open a file required a "call" to a "subroutine" where the input required was the full path and file name. You crossed your fingers and hoped you didn't mis-type any of the "arguments". So please, lets have some perspective.
The automatic "insider" tag under your name shows you are either a Windows of Office "insider". At some point you click on a link (actually probably more than one link) to join the "insider" program. Unfortunately the tag does not identify if we are Windows or Office insiders (hint hint moderators/owners). We can assume for now that you are an Office insider.
Being an insider simple means that you have volunteered to be an unpaid "crash test dummy" for MS. As an insider you have told MS that you are willing to let them send you program code they think is ready to be distribute to the general public. Buy sending this code to insiders outside of MS they get to test in the real world on a wide variety of environments that even MS could not afford to setup and staff.
Being an insider has 2 issues. First, you have to invest time to keep up to date on what is new in each release. Second is that you may be luck enough to find a problem in the code, at best the feature just doesn't work, worst case it causes the program to abend. Abends are a real problem if the corrupt your files, cause you to lose work and possibly prevent you from finishing important work. This is an aspect of being an insider that the "average" volunteer simply does not understand or appreciate fully.
2015 12 03- Inside being an Office Insider
http://new.office-watch.com/2015/inside-being-an-office-insider/
Apparently, I AM an Insider (not sure how that works), and the problem WAS fixed for a while (yes -- sorted alphabetically). I mainly use Excel so I can't speak for other apps. But, as I said, it is broken again. I just finished applying latest updates and that didn't fix it so I assume the fix was inadvertent and I can only pray they have a change of heart.
Cool, are you saying that for a while the Excel 2016 Recent list was sorted "correctly" <grin>, alphabetically?
That is encouraging. I don't use Excel much, mainly for just one file that doesn't require going to the Recent list.
If you are an Office insider, feature changes like that (accidentally) could come and go as versions are pushed out if there is a minor problem with their version control.
Am I the only one who noticed that Excel briefly repaired this problem about a month or two ago? It is broken again, but I was very happy when it was fixed for a short time.