Yes, you cannot drag a file to the Excel icon on the Taskbar to pin it there, as you could in Windows 10. But there is another way you can pin the files you use. First make sure you have turned on 'Show recently opened items in Start, Jump Lists and File Explorer'.
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Then every file you open in Excel will subsequently appear in its Jump List (aka 'Recent') . If you now right-click on the Excel icon you can pin anything from its jump List.
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You will only have to do that once for each new file, after that it will be in the list of recent files and you can pin it from there.
I am aware that most people don't care and have al ot of short cut for files on the dashboard but this is a terrible solution if you are working with several documents thar will cover these shortcuts. When the shortcut is tied to the app on the taskbar it's always accessible. My shortcuts from Win 10 is still attached to the app! so maybe there is hope for a solution?
