Pinning Documents to Windows ten Starting time Menu

Although it'southward not obvious how to do information technology, at that place is a fashion to pin documents to the Windows ten Kickoff Menu

Windows 10 - yet another logoIf you lot have documents that you lot demand to admission often – such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint files, or pdf files – you lot may want to access them straight from a "tile" on the Start Card. Yeah, I know that a shortcut can exist added to the desktop, but the problem with desktop shortcuts is that Windows has an irritating habit of "re-organizing" them such that you tin't find anything speedily.

Well, there is a way to create Starting time Menu tiles of documents. It involves three steps:

  • Create a desktop shortcut to the certificate
  • Add together that shortcut to the folder that contains the Start Carte items
  • Create a Beginning Menu tile from the new entry in the Starting time Menu list of "All Apps"

To create a desktop shortcut to the document:

  • Open File Explorer and notice the document
  • Correct-click on the document
  • Left-click on "Send to"
  • Left-click on "Desktop (create shortcut)"

File Explorer Address Bar

To add that shortcut to the folder that contains the Showtime Menu items:

  • Open up a "File Explorer" window
  • Blazon the text on the next line into the address bar in the File Explorer window, and hit the Enter fundamental:

    %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

    If you lot desire the shortcut to appear on the Start Menu of all other users on this computer as well as your own so, instead of the line above, type the line below into the File Explorer window, and hit the Enter key:

    %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Outset Bill of fare\Programs

  • Drag the File Explorer window around the desktop until you can run into the shortcut to the document that you lot created in the starting time step
  • Elevate the shortcut from the desktop into the File Explorer window you lot opened above

Start Menu Display Options

To create a Get-go Carte tile from the new entry in the Kickoff Menu list of "All Apps"

  • Open the Start Menu
  • Select the "All Apps" view on the Outset Carte (see analogy)
  • Notice the entry for the new detail, correct-click on it, and left-click on "Pin to Outset"
  • Display the tiles by clicking on the "Pinned Tiles" icon (run into illustration)

That'south information technology. You lot now take a "tile" of your certificate on the Start Menu. It'due south very much faster to open a document this manner than to open up its associated plan and and then open the document from within the programme.Unlike desktop icons, this tile will stay in the same place.

I haven't found a way of changing the image of the tile to use, for example, a jpg. The epitome that the live tile adopts is the icon of the desktop shortcut from which it was created. Commonly, this will be the default icon associated with the file type, but you tin can change the icon of desktop shortcuts every bit follows:

  • Right-click on the shortcut
  • Left-click on the "Shortcut" tab
  • Left-click on "Modify Icon"
Live Tiles of Documents
Live tiles of a pdf file, a spreadsheet file (with inverse icon), and an Admission database

Also, you can change the diction on the Start Menu tile by renaming the desktop shortcut before dragging information technology into the "Start Bill of fare\Programs" folder. Rename the desktop shortcut by correct-clicking on it and left-clicking on "Rename". You lot can rename the shortcut to anything yous like (removing the give-and-take "shortcut" and the ".pdf", for instance).