Pinning a Document to Excel or Word

This is a cool trick I learned some time ago. I have a file in Excel that I inevitably need however it’s not a file that I use all the time and forget where it’s saved. Rather than searching through my documents to find it I pin the document to Excel for easy retrieval.

Both Excel and Word allow you to “pin” a file to Recent Documents. This will keep the files you need in Recent Documents thus allowing easy access.

To pin a document in Excel or Word 2007 open the document that you want pinned. From the Office button under Recent Documents you will see a push pin to the far right. Click on the push pin. The pin will turn green to indicate you have pinned the document to Recent Documents.

To pin a document in Excel or Word 2010 open the document you want pinned. Select Recent from the File menu. To the right you will see the push pin under Recent Workbooks. Click on the push pin. The pin will turn blue to indicate you have pinned the workbook to Recent Workbooks.