Solved: MS Word disappeared from the right-click context menu

Hi friends,

Recently when I right-click on, for example, an empty region in my desktop, and then select 'New', I don't see Microsoft Word any more. However Microsoft Access and Microsoft Publisher are still there. This problem causes me a lot of troubles because every time I need to create a new Word document in a specific folder I have to open Microsoft Word and then save the new and blank document to the target folder.

Please help me to solve this problem. I'm using Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows 7.

Thank you.

 

Hi, thank you for your answer.

The desktop is just an example of the directory I want to save the file to. Imagine if you don't have MS Word in the right-click context menu, when you want to create a word document named document1 in folder folder1, then you will have to open MS Word, open the save as dialog box, navigate to folder folder1 and then save the blank document as document1 in there. Isn't this more complicated?

I'm the only one using my laptop, but I didn't perform any tweak regarding this problem. Anyway, I just want to get MS Word back in the list. Do you know how?

Thank you.

 

Hi DaveA, thank you for your answer.

Please take a look at the following figure:


The figure is a screen-short of my right-click context menu. From the figure you can see that MS Office Word doesn't exist in the New option, although MS Office Access and MS Office Publisher do.
So the above link you gave me is not relevant to my problem. I also tried the method suggested by the link:

Code:

http://superuser.com/questions/34704/windows-7-add-an-item-to-new-context-menu

but with no luck.

Do you have any other idea?

Regards,

newbie_olala

 

After repairing the problem still existed. Well, I have uninstall and reinstall MS Office and everything has gone back to normal.
Thank you for your answers.

 

Maybe I'm a bit late, but I had same problem, and after google it, I've found an interesting solution...to be precise, it's more like alternative, than solution, but me like it (I really didn't want to reinstall office...), and find it very useful, so for the future, if anyone got same problem, here it goes:

so, the program name is:

FileMenu Tools, I've found it on this link http://www.winvistaclub.com/e11.html here you also have a few different solutions.


Download, install, and make your context menu, what ever you like it! It's really useful program.
And, for taking care of windows context menu, or that "New" menu you got on right click, I used this ShellNewHandler 1.0.0 stuff. Now in "New" menu I only got "Folder, and Briefcase".

That's the way I "fix" my context menu problem.

P.S. I register just because of this. But if anyone find this helpful, it's worthy.
Peace! =)