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Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu After Installing Office 2007

If you are using Office 2007 in an environment where everybody else is using Office 2003, you might have already set Excel or Word to always save to 2003 format, but what about when you create new documents using the New menu? The only choices are now to create files in 2007 format, but we can add the old ones back.

August 17, 2008 · 1 min · 51 words · Paul Gordon

We can add the old item back to the list with a simple registry hack.

to create a blank document, you have to add a key named Nullfile to the right-hand side.

Each file is named according to the document key in.

Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu After Installing Office 2007

There’s also included files to remove them as well.

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