Right-click -> New -> but no "Microsoft Office Word Document"

[dekilaz]

Hi all,

When I right-click to bring up the folder menu, the "new" bar contains many of the other office applications, but not word. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks in advance,
Dekilaz

 

[bomb #21]

There's TweakUI -- may work with Vista or not, so set a restore point first if you try it.

On XP I went through "Templates" in TweakUI and managed to "Create" a Word option by navigating to C:\Documents and Settings\MyName\Templates\winword.doc.

Although personally I'd just assign a hot-key combo to run Word (say CTRL+ALT+W).

HTH

 

[dekilaz]

Thanks for your reply! Couldn't get Tweak UI to run on Vista, so I guess I'm stuck until someone decides to release a similar tool for that operating system. Thanks for the tip, though!

 

[bomb #21]

Similar but not close enough.

http://www.tweakvista.com/articles/39125/add-open-with-notepad-to-rightclick-context-menu/

 

[dekilaz]

I guess I'm stuck with the problem, as I cannot find any solution for this anywhere. I've even reinstalled office, but to no effect. My "solution" was a registry hack where I added a "NullFile" value under "ShellNew" for Word 8, thus giving me the option to create new Word 97-2003 documents. However, I can't understand why my computer can't comply with the NullFile value I've set for Word 12.

I guess this problem runs pretty deep, and that it's only fixable by doing a format and clean install of everything. So I'll get around to fixing it... eventually

Anyways, thanks a lot for taking the time to try to help!