{"id":10006,"date":"2019-06-27T05:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=10006"},"modified":"2023-08-02T20:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:05:29","slug":"word-excel-missing-desktop-new-menu-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/word-excel-missing-desktop-new-menu-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop New Menu Missing Word Document or Excel Worksheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New menu that appears when you right-click on your Desktop has options or templates to create documents of a particular type quickly. For example, after you install Microsoft Office, the New menu shows Microsoft Word Document, Microsoft Excel Worksheet, Microsoft Access Database, and entries for other Office products installed in the system.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the options Word Document, Excel Worksheet or PowerPoint Presentation may be missing in the New menu after upgrading your Office installation. To restore the entries back, short of repairing Microsoft Office, you can use the registry fix in this article.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>New Menu Missing Word Document or Excel Worksheet<\/h2>\n<p>To restore Microsoft Word Document, Microsoft Excel Worksheet, and Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation entries in the Desktop New menu, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Copy the following lines to Notepad.\n<pre>Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00\r\n\r\n;Restores missing Word, Excel or PowerPoint option to the Desktop New menu\r\n\r\n[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.docx\\Word.Document.12\\ShellNew]\r\n\"NullFile\"=\"\"\r\n\"FileName\"=-\r\n\r\n[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.pptx\\PowerPoint.Show.12\\ShellNew]\r\n\"NullFile\"=\"\"\r\n\"FileName\"=-\r\n\r\n[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\.xlsx\\Excel.Sheet.12\\ShellNew]\r\n\"NullFile\"=-\r\n\"FileName\"=\"C:\\\\Windows\\\\ShellNew\\\\excel12.xlsx\"\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Save the file as <code>office_new_menu.reg<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Close Notepad and run <code>office_new_menu.reg<\/code> by double-clicking on it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"qt\">\n<h4>Additional Steps for Microsoft Excel<\/h4>\n<p>In the above registry file, you may have noticed that Excel sheet registry key refers to a template file in order for you to create a new document via Desktop New menu. Using <code>NullFile<\/code> registry value (for <code>.xlsx<\/code>) instead of a template file name for Excel causes the following error:<\/p>\n<p class=\"err\">Excel cannot open the file &#8216;New Microsoft Excel Worksheet.xlsx&#8217; because the file format or file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the file extension matches the format of the file.<\/p>\n<p>The .reg file prevents the above error.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve referenced a template file in the .reg file above, we need to create a blank .xlsx worksheet and use it as a template. Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Open Microsoft Excel and save a blank sheet and name it <code>excel12.xlsx<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Move <code>excel12.xlsx<\/code> to the following directory:\n<pre>C:\\Windows\\ShellNew<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/office-shellnew-template.png\" alt=\"office shellnew new word excel document\" width=\"499\" height=\"88\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Note that the Office 365 installations use the following Template folder path by default:<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Root\\VFS\\Windows\\ShellNew<\/pre>\n<p><em>However, the standard location <code>C:\\Windows\\ShellNew<\/code> also works absolutely fine in any version of Office\/Windows.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! This restores Word document, Excel Worksheet, and PowerPoint Presentation options to the Desktop New menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/office-shellnew-menu.png\" alt=\"office shellnew new word excel document\" width=\"595\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above registry file works on any version of Microsoft Office.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Last tested on Office 2019\/O365 1906 build 11727.20210)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New menu that appears when you right-click on your Desktop has options or templates to create documents of a particular type quickly. For example, after you install Microsoft Office, the New menu shows Microsoft Word Document, Microsoft Excel Worksheet, Microsoft Access Database, and entries for other Office products installed in the system. Sometimes the &#8230; <a title=\"Desktop New Menu Missing Word Document or Excel Worksheet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/word-excel-missing-desktop-new-menu-office\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Desktop New Menu Missing Word Document or Excel Worksheet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-10006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office","tag-registry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ms-office-featured.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10496,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-change-the-office-365-2016-default-save-folder\/","url_meta":{"origin":10006,"position":0},"title":"How to Change the Office 365\/2016 Default Save Folder","author":"Ramesh","date":"July 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Office programs save your files to OneDrive by default since the February 2019 Office 365 update. 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