How to remove any non-steam game from the library

Question

I had the brilliant idea of adding Excel and PowerPoint to my library as non-steam games (yup...). At some point, I wanted to remove them. However, surprise, surprise, the "Right Click / Manage / Remove non-Steam game from your library" option was gone. In fact, the only option I got from Right Click was "Launch", "Add to Category" and "Properties".

So I spent a couple of minutes looking around and the best solution I was able to find was a way to remove all non-steam games from the library. This didn't work for me, since I only wanted to remove those two and keep the rest.

Answer 1

This sounds like a bug. If no one else has had this issue since you reported it, it might've been fixed?

I haven't seen the "Right Click > Manage > Remove non-Steam game from your library" option not appear for me, at least.

Answer 2

Non-Steam Shortcuts are saved to the file .../steam/userdata/{user ID #}/config/shortcuts.vdf. It is a binary VDF (Valve Data Format), and so is hard to modify without using code to read/write the file, or a hex editor if you're okay with that. There's some unofficial documentation which could simplify using a hex editor though.