Can't pin Office 2010 apps to taskbar?


  1. Posts : 872
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #1

    Can't pin Office 2010 apps to taskbar?


    Hey,

    For some reason, I can't get any of the Office 2010 programs to pin to the taskbar on Windows 7 Home Premium. When the program is running, the jumplist has no button to pin the program. If I go into the Start Menu and hit Pin to Taskbar from there, it gives me a working shortcut on the taskbar, but the program creates a new taskbar button when it launches, completely ignoring the one that's already there.

    Even stranger, I don't have this problem on my other computer running Win 7 Pro.

    Any thoughts or suggestions?
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  2. Posts : 3,141
    Vista Ult 64 bit Seven Ult RTM x64
       #2

    Have you tried rt.click on the .exe for each program and pin, or drag and drop the exe onto the taskbar. See if that works.
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  3. Posts : 872
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Yes, I have tried that. Has the same result as right-clicking the Start Menu shortcut.
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  4. Posts : 872
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    No further suggestions from anyone??
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  5. Posts : 846
    Windows 10 Pro
       #5

    BCXtreme said:
    Hey,

    For some reason, I can't get any of the Office 2010 programs to pin to the taskbar on Windows 7 Home Premium. When the program is running, the jumplist has no button to pin the program. If I go into the Start Menu and hit Pin to Taskbar from there, it gives me a working shortcut on the taskbar, but the program creates a new taskbar button when it launches, completely ignoring the one that's already there.

    Even stranger, I don't have this problem on my other computer running Win 7 Pro.

    Any thoughts or suggestions?
    Have you tried to select winword.exe and send shortcut to desktop first.
    After it is on desktop just drag and drop into taskbar.
    This works for me.

    Iggy
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  6. Posts : 872
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    IggyAZ said:
    BCXtreme said:
    Hey,

    For some reason, I can't get any of the Office 2010 programs to pin to the taskbar on Windows 7 Home Premium. When the program is running, the jumplist has no button to pin the program. If I go into the Start Menu and hit Pin to Taskbar from there, it gives me a working shortcut on the taskbar, but the program creates a new taskbar button when it launches, completely ignoring the one that's already there.

    Even stranger, I don't have this problem on my other computer running Win 7 Pro.

    Any thoughts or suggestions?
    Have you tried to select winword.exe and send shortcut to desktop first.
    After it is on desktop just drag and drop into taskbar.
    This works for me.

    Iggy
    Yes, that did it! Thanks! Unfortunately, the Outlook does not have the proper jumplist options ... bummer ... but that is a minor issue for me, far outweighed by the fact that the icon itself is working!
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  7. Posts : 5,807
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 - Mac OS X 10.6.4 x64
       #7

    BCXtreme said:
    IggyAZ said:
    BCXtreme said:
    Hey,

    For some reason, I can't get any of the Office 2010 programs to pin to the taskbar on Windows 7 Home Premium. When the program is running, the jumplist has no button to pin the program. If I go into the Start Menu and hit Pin to Taskbar from there, it gives me a working shortcut on the taskbar, but the program creates a new taskbar button when it launches, completely ignoring the one that's already there.

    Even stranger, I don't have this problem on my other computer running Win 7 Pro.

    Any thoughts or suggestions?
    Have you tried to select winword.exe and send shortcut to desktop first.
    After it is on desktop just drag and drop into taskbar.
    This works for me.

    Iggy
    Yes, that did it! Thanks! Unfortunately, the Outlook does not have the proper jumplist options ... bummer ... but that is a minor issue for me, far outweighed by the fact that the icon itself is working!
    If it worked on Win7 Pro than this signals to me that you have a much bigger problem at stake here...try this first

    Run sfc /scannow in a command prompt (as an Administrator)...if it doesn't work after that than I would consider a repair install
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  8. Posts : 846
    Windows 10 Pro
       #8

    Zidane24 said:
    BCXtreme said:
    IggyAZ said:

    Have you tried to select winword.exe and send shortcut to desktop first.
    After it is on desktop just drag and drop into taskbar.
    This works for me.

    Iggy
    Yes, that did it! Thanks! Unfortunately, the Outlook does not have the proper jumplist options ... bummer ... but that is a minor issue for me, far outweighed by the fact that the icon itself is working!
    If it worked on Win7 Pro than this signals to me that you have a much bigger problem at stake here...try this first

    Run sfc /scannow in a command prompt (as an Administrator)...if it doesn't work after that than I would consider a repair install

    I just unlocked my taskbar and tried to pin something to it and it didn't work. We may have found a minor glitch in Win7.
      My Computer


  9. Posts : 1,419
    Windows 7 7600 1 X64
       #9

    IggyAZ said:
    Zidane24 said:
    BCXtreme said:

    Yes, that did it! Thanks! Unfortunately, the Outlook does not have the proper jumplist options ... bummer ... but that is a minor issue for me, far outweighed by the fact that the icon itself is working!
    If it worked on Win7 Pro than this signals to me that you have a much bigger problem at stake here...try this first

    Run sfc /scannow in a command prompt (as an Administrator)...if it doesn't work after that than I would consider a repair install

    I just unlocked my taskbar and tried to pin something to it and it didn't work. We may have found a minor glitch in Win7.
    Nope, there is no glitch! I pinned IE x64 drom my \START\PROGRAMS R/C to the taskbar. No issues.
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