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Creating template-based Word documents from Windows Explorer contextmenu, item "New"
The feature to create a new blank Word document in the current folder
is very handy. However, this blank document is always based on the Normal.dot standard template. When a customer rings and I want to make notes, I would like to rapidly create a Word document in the customer's folder, that is based on the "Telephone notes" template. On other occasions, other templates would come handy. The Windows Explorer context New menu should therefore look like this: New - Word Document Word Telephone Notes Word Report (Word ...) For this purpose, I tried to add the extension '.doc_notes' to the New menu, by creating the correspondent registry entry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and a .doc_notes file in C:\Windows\ShellNew. I had previously associated the 'doc_notes' with MS Word in Explorer. I also tried using TweakUI for this - all to no avail Anybody knows how to achieve my goal? TIA I'm running XP x64 SP2 |
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Creating template-based Word documents from Windows Explorer context menu, item "New"
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Prestidigitator typed: The feature to create a new blank Word document in the current folder is very handy. However, this blank document is always based on the Normal.dot standard template. When a customer rings and I want to make notes, I would like to rapidly create a Word document in the customer's folder, that is based on the "Telephone notes" template. On other occasions, other templates would come handy. The Windows Explorer context New menu should therefore look like this: New - Word Document Word Telephone Notes Word Report (Word ...) For this purpose, I tried to add the extension '.doc_notes' to the New menu, by creating the correspondent registry entry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and a .doc_notes file in C:\Windows\ShellNew. I had previously associated the 'doc_notes' with MS Word in Explorer. I also tried using TweakUI for this - all to no avail Anybody knows how to achieve my goal? TIA I'm running XP x64 SP2 Outlook's Journal is pretty good for that, or if you want more formal layout, used the v-card or Outlook's Contact List. Various free programs can be found around the 'net too but I've none to recommend. Me, I use XP's Address Book. It has places for all the various fields you might want. Or, just plain old Notepad or Wordpad, or NoteTAB Pro or Notepad++, etc. HTH, Twayne` |
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Creating template-based Word documents from Windows Explorer context menu, item "New"
For a start-off - Windows (XP) no-longer uses the [C:\WINDOWS\ShellNew] folder for templates, but uses, instead, the default "Templates" directory defined in the following registry value : [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders] "Templates"="" This directory is normally assigned to : "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Templates" But that may not help you all the way, as even if you neglected to place a templated file for your particular registry "ShellNew" entry, the file-type *should* still appear anyway when you choose : "New" "Filetype" from the desktop right-click menu. Whether a template is present for it or not. So the problem may be one of registry configuration. Normally, you create a new entry in the "New" "File" right-click menu, by adding a "ShellNew" sub-key to the registry key of the same name as the file extension, thus ; [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext\ShellNew] ...(where you would replace .ext with your chosen file extension). Then, under this new "ShellNew" key, add a new string value named, either, "NullFile" which you would leave blank (no assigned value) and also does not then require any associated templated file, but simply will create a new file of size 0 [zero] bytes called ; "New [file description].[file extension]" Or; you can create a new string value named "Filename" to which you would assign the name of the templated file that must exist in your "Templates" directory (see top above). So that if the filename of the template in the "Templates" folder is "telephone.doc_notes" then that also has to be entered as the assigned value for "Filename" thus ; REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext\ShellNew] "FileName"="telephone.doc_notes" This would usually result in a new entry under "New" "File" on the desktop right-click menu, and would use the file in the Templates folder of the same name as the "FileName" string value. If you have difficulty in visualising the registry entries, take a look at one already in existence for comparison, say, ; HKCR\.bmp\ShellNew ....for an example of "NullFile", or ; HKCR\.wav\ShellNew ....for an example of the "FileName" value, where the set value: "sndrec.wav" corresponds to a file that exists in the Templates directory. == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Prestidigitator" wrote in message ... The feature to create a new blank Word document in the current folder is very handy. However, this blank document is always based on the Normal.dot standard template. When a customer rings and I want to make notes, I would like to rapidly create a Word document in the customer's folder, that is based on the "Telephone notes" template. On other occasions, other templates would come handy. The Windows Explorer context New menu should therefore look like this: New - Word Document Word Telephone Notes Word Report (Word ...) For this purpose, I tried to add the extension '.doc_notes' to the New menu, by creating the correspondent registry entry in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, and a .doc_notes file in C:\Windows\ShellNew. I had previously associated the 'doc_notes' with MS Word in Explorer. I also tried using TweakUI for this - all to no avail Anybody knows how to achieve my goal? TIA I'm running XP x64 SP2 |
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