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windows” (for just about any program). As Microsoft puts it, it’s like

having a separate Start menu for every single program.

To make jump lists appear in the taskbar or the Start menu, right-click a
program’s icon. If you’re using a touchscreen computer, just swipe upward
from the program’s taskbar icon. (This second, secret way actually works if

you have a mouse or trackpad, too. Give the mouse a flick upward while
you’re clicking.) In Figure 2-22, for example, you can see that Microsoft
Edge’s jump list includes web pages you’ve recently visited and recently

closed.

Pinning to Jump Lists

In general, jump lists maintain themselves. Windows decides which files

you’ve opened or played most recently or most frequently and builds the
jump lists accordingly. New document listings appear, older ones vanish, all
without your help.

But you can also install files manually into a program’s jump list—in
Windows-ese, you can pin a document to a program’s jump list so it’s not
susceptible to replacement by other items.

For example, you might pin the chapters of a book you’re working on to
your Word jump list. To the File Explorer jump list, you might pin the
folder and disk locations you access often.

You can pin a file or folder to a taskbar jump list in any of four ways:

From the Start menu: Find an app or document in the programs

list of the Start menu. Right-click (or hold your finger down on) its
name; from the shortcut menu, choose More →“Pin to taskbar.”

From the desktop or a File Explorer window: Drag a document
(or its file shortcut) directly onto a blank spot on the taskbar. (You
can drag it onto its “parent” program’s icon if you really want to,

but the taskbar itself is a bigger target.)