Basically, what I need is to imitate the action of right-clicking on a folder and choosing “New”, then “Microsoft Word Document”. The I/O namespace seems to allow creating text files only. I cannot create a text file and only change its extension to “*.doc” since the file remains a text file (I need the “Word Document” format). Is there a way to create office files without actually opening them?
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Create files, but not text files
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craigsboyd
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Interesting question. I would be suprised if there isn't some automation taking place even when you right-click and choose New - Microsoft Word Document from the context menu. However, it may just be making a copy of the blank document template that exists on the system...and in that case your answer would be to do the same, more of a copy file routine than create from scratch. Not having gone and looked yet, I would say that there is a template blank documents are based on and that there is also something in the registry that tells WORD where to find that document to make a copy of it.
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craigsboyd
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Well, some of them anyways...you can add more with a little hack, but for the time being here is what I have found out...
New documents are created by Windows copying the files from blank ones held in C:\Windows\ShellNew or C:\WINNT\ShellNew Go to the folder ShellNew and check out what is there. I thought Normal.dot was used for this but I guess it is only used when Word is running and you create a new document from within word. The document that gets created when you use the right-click new feature is the one that exists in ShellNew.
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New documents are created by Windows copying the files from blank ones held in C:\Windows\ShellNew or C:\WINNT\ShellNew Go to the folder ShellNew and check out what is there. I thought Normal.dot was used for this but I guess it is only used when Word is running and you create a new document from within word. The document that gets created when you use the right-click new feature is the one that exists in ShellNew.
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craigsboyd
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ok will do, glad I could help...I'm not sure which of us learned more...I feel like I learned quite a bit here too.
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