Issue

After upgrading Microsoft Office 2010 to Microsoft Office 365 (2020) user lost pinned items the were saved in Recent Workbooks in MS Excel 2010

Excel 2010 - Recent Workbooks

Resolution

Pinned Workbooks are just shortcuts to files saved on a PC or the network, so no data loss is involved there. Nonetheless, here is how you can find pinned file locations after Office 2010 is no longer present on a PC.

  • Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) while logged in as the affected user.
  • Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\File MRU
  • You will see a number of items, each representing a file in Recent Workbooks, including the full path. If the data/value section starts with [F00000000] then the item was not pinned, if it starts with [F00000001] then it was pinned.

Registry Editor

December 2020
Microsoft Office 2010
Windows 10 Pro

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