Someone else asked this a year and a half ago with no answer, so I’ll try again. In a previous version (several years ago) of LO, I could right click the Writer or Calc icons that I pinned in the Windows (10/64) Taskbar, and recent documents of that type would pop up and could be selected. Is there any way to get this feature back?
Is there any way to get this feature back?
Try to ask Microsoft, it’s not a function from LibreOffice, i think.
How to use the taskbar in Windows
Thanks for the response. I think (and it has been several years ago) it went away with an update of LO, but that could have been coincidental, or perhaps an update in both W10 and LO.
As I read the topic you will loose jump-lists with every update, as windows regards the different versions as different programs, so the new version does not “inherit” the old jump-list.
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But look for the release-notes of LibreOffice 7.4 at Jump_Lists:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.4#Jump_Lists
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Thanks for your response. That would be fine if it started a new list, but it doesn’t. Right click now has only a new document, and it never changes.
Wow, it’s been years since I’ve seen that! What are your versions of LO and W10? Could it be a setting?
Version: 7.4.0.1 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 43e5fcfbbadd18fccee5a6f42ddd533e40151bcf
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (ru_RU); UI: en-US
Calc: CL
However, it was the same way in all older versions of both LO (since the introduction of the different IDs for different components) and Windows (all flavors of Windows 10, as well as Windows 7, 8, 8.1).
The question could be - how specifically do you pin the components to the taskbar? Could it be that you use, say, some BAT files, which you pin?
In Windows 11 click Start menu > Settings > Personalisation > Start and switch on Show recently opened items in Start menu, jump list and File explorer. Note that turning it off will delete all Windows recent lists but not folders pinned to quick access, nor LO’s own recent lists
In Windows 10, from memory, is pretty much the same path but the appearance is somewhat different.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you. A very minor thing, but something I really missed.