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File Explorer New File Menu (Windows 8)

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pjw001

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Aug 12, 2002
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I am running Office 2007 on Windows 8.

I recently installed LibreOffice and uninstalled Apache Open Office, although whether this is the cause I don't know.

The problem is that when I want to create a new file from File Explorer I get the options shown in the image below.

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The options to create Word or Excel files have gone (and possibly others that I don't use) and I now have the three Google options (which I don't believe were there before and have never used and don't want) and the two OpenDocument options.

I have tried looking for information on how to reinstate the Word and Excel options but have not found any information that I can understand.

Please could someone either point me to a useful URL or explain it to me.

Thanks.
 
I have been provided with a solution from a LibreOffice forum.

It appears that there is a limit on the number of entries that can exist on the New File facility.

I amended the LibreOffice registry entries so that they would not appear there and the Excel and Word entries reappeared.
 
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