Steve:

Thanks.

I verified the registry entry (it's as you stated) and located my winword8.doc.

When I opened winword8.doc directly from the desktop, it generated a .doc file
in the "old" Normal style. I therefore went into Organizer and overwrote all
the styles from Normal.dot into winword8.doc and saved it. Now
right-click-generated .doc files are created with the proper Normal style.

My question now is: Do you have any idea why winword8.doc does not keep up with
(or at least in this case, did not keep up with) changes to my Normal.dot?

Thanks again.

Jay


Subject: Right-click-created .doc file has wrong Normal template
From: "Steve Yandl"
Date: 5/22/2004 5:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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At the Start | Run line, type "regedit" without the quotes and press Enter.
Navigate to the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc\Word.Document.8\ShellNew
(note, I' running Word 2003 so "Word.Document.8" might be a different number
value on your system). See what the data for the value "FileName" is given
as. On my system, I find "winword8.doc which is located in C:\Documents and
Settings\{your ID}\Templates where I believe it acts as the template when I
opt to create a new document in the manner you describe. Either you have a
pointer to the wrong template or the template in your templates folder has a
problem.

Steve


"HONYAKUKA" wrote in message
...
WinXP
Word 2000

When I create a .doc file using Right Click New New Microsoft Word
document
from a folder on the desktop, the newly created file opens with the wrong
Normal style formatting. Many of the formats (default typesize and some
paragraph formatting) appear to be from an earlier version of my Normal
style.

Using debug.print in VBA, I verified that the attached template was
Normal.dot
and that its path was that of the correct folder. The attached template
and
path of a new document created within Word itself (with my current Normal
style
formatting) were exactly the same.

Can the Right Click feature be updated to create a document that contains
my
Normal style current formatting? (And where is this feature getting my
old
Normal style information from?)

Thanks.

Jay