Pinning documents to taskbar instead of programs

If you have them on the desktop you can add the desktop toolbar and stretch it out to show all the documents, but it makes for some hard readin!

OK, I tried what you suggested. Now I have a the Links toolbar showing and I can click on it and see the docs. But that's the same number of clicks as a jump list. What I"m trting to do is have the actual documents, themselves, show on the taskbar, ala Windows XP.

When I do that, it just pins it to the program, but it doesn't stay on the taskbar. I've unlocked the taskbar as recommended... but it still doesn't work.

- Go to document of interest, right-click on it, go to Properties, copy and paste its location, that is, its path;
- Drag the application icon (from, say, the Start Menu) to the Desktop to make a shortcut;
- Right-click on application shortcut, go to Properties, and paste, between quotes, the path to the file (see example below);
- Add, the the file path, the name of the file (because the location in its Properties window contains only the path, not the name, of the file).

Example:

When you open the shortcut properties, you may seem something like:

"C:/Program Files/Application.exe"

Make that
"C:/Program Files/Application.exe" "C:/Users/John/My Documents/FileOfInterest.xxx"

PS: This assumes that the application takes a document full path and name as a first argument, and opens it. This is the case for most applications, but not necessarily all. In the case this is not true, you would have to find out how to open a file with that application from the command prompt (because using a shortcut is like running a command from the command prompt).