Bug 169250 - Add a Recent Documents menu entry enable Pin in MRU
Summary: Add a Recent Documents menu entry enable Pin in MRU
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.6.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Depends on: 77590 38742
Blocks: Recent-Document-List
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Reported: 2025-11-04 14:31 UTC by protonguy80
Modified: 2025-11-11 06:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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excel recent documents menu (27.57 KB, image/png)
2025-11-11 04:13 UTC, protonguy80
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Description protonguy80 2025-11-04 14:31:08 UTC
Description:
In File-> Recent Documents, there can be a provision to pin documents which are used often. This will avoid opening the Open file dialog and navigating through the folders for documents which are opened often.

Actual Results:
 

Expected Results:
 


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-11-04 17:12:26 UTC
Already implemented as for bug 38742 at the 7.6.0 release.

"Push Pin" for an existing document shown on the StartCenter will reposition to tp of the Start Center thumbnail views and to the top of the 'Recent Documents'

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 38742 ***
Comment 2 protonguy80 2025-11-08 07:39:49 UTC
Pinning can be done from the start center and works nicely. However, if I am working on calc and need to pin the document and continue working, there is no option to do this from the calc file menu. If the pinning (and unpinning) is possible in the recent documents menu directly, it would be convenient.
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2025-11-08 12:53:42 UTC
OK, agree a Files -> Recent documents menu entry "Make the current document a favorite" as is suggested [1] remains an outstanding follow-up to the Start Center pushpin implementation. 

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[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38742#c22
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2025-11-08 14:01:44 UTC
Absent work on bug 77590 to allow return/open of the Start Center backingwindow from an active module to access the thumbnail views, this addition of a menu entry to "pin" via MRU menu listing remains a needed enhancement.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-10 08:15:44 UTC
-1 to add a menu entry for a command "Pin current document". It's not easy to understand, clutters the menu, and the provided workflow is sufficient. Essentially I disagree with a _need_ for pinning from active documents.
Comment 6 V Stuart Foote 2025-11-10 12:07:18 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> -1 to add a menu entry for a command "Pin current document". It's not easy
> to understand, clutters the menu, and the provided workflow is sufficient.
> Essentially I disagree with a _need_ for pinning from active documents.

As if the clunky "pushpin" motif on the Start Center is any more intuitive? With the added annoyance that one *can not access it* with any other LO module open, while the File -> Recent documents menu (aka MRU) is *always* available to UI via menu.
Comment 7 protonguy80 2025-11-11 04:13:58 UTC
Created attachment 203862 [details]
excel recent documents menu

MS excel seems to have this since 2010 version (sample snapshot attached).
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2025-11-11 06:36:57 UTC
(In reply to protonguy80 from comment #7)
> MS excel seems to have this since 2010 version (sample snapshot attached).

The MRU aka File > Recent Documents was implemented in LibreOffice when Excel was not even born. To my knowledge this pin-to-top function is not available in Microsoft products.