Hi.
I don't know if this is an excel or a windows explorer problem.
I want to alter the windows explorer "right click - new" menu so I can right
click e.g. an empty area of my desktop, select new and from there create an
old format xls document.
I have altered the registry key:
HKCR\.xls\Excel.Sheet.8\ShellNew\Filename
so I have the option to create a "Microsoft Excel 97-2003 worksheet" in the
right click menu. The problem is that when I double click my newly created
xls file I get an error message from excel telling me: "The file you are
trying to open <filename is in a different format..."

I am running all this on a w2k3 terminal server so I can not use TweakUI
from the Powertoys for Windows XP.

Thanks in advance...

It would probably be better to set the default file type in Excel so that
everytime you save a file, it would be in the format that you desire. Goto
ToolsOptionsTransition then select 'Save Excel files as:' and set that to
"Microsoft Excel 97-2003 worksheet"

"Mattias" wrote:

Hi.
I don't know if this is an excel or a windows explorer problem.
I want to alter the windows explorer "right click - new" menu so I can right
click e.g. an empty area of my desktop, select new and from there create an
old format xls document.
I have altered the registry key:
HKCR\.xls\Excel.Sheet.8\ShellNew\Filename
so I have the option to create a "Microsoft Excel 97-2003 worksheet" in the
right click menu. The problem is that when I double click my newly created
xls file I get an error message from excel telling me: "The file you are
trying to open <filename is in a different format..."

I am running all this on a w2k3 terminal server so I can not use TweakUI
from the Powertoys for Windows XP.

Thanks in advance...

That is already covered using a GPO and it works. If a user creates a new
worksheet from within Excel and saves it using default settings it is saved
as a xls file.
The problem is that there are to many users using the "right click" way to
create new worksheets.

Thanks anyway...

"bigwheel" skrev:

It would probably be better to set the default file type in Excel so that
everytime you save a file, it would be in the format that you desire. Goto
ToolsOptionsTransition then select 'Save Excel files as:' and set that to
"Microsoft Excel 97-2003 worksheet"

"Mattias" wrote:

Hi.
I don't know if this is an excel or a windows explorer problem.
I want to alter the windows explorer "right click - new" menu so I can right
click e.g. an empty area of my desktop, select new and from there create an
old format xls document.
I have altered the registry key:
HKCR\.xls\Excel.Sheet.8\ShellNew\Filename
so I have the option to create a "Microsoft Excel 97-2003 worksheet" in the
right click menu. The problem is that when I double click my newly created
xls file I get an error message from excel telling me: "The file you are
trying to open <filename is in a different format..."

I am running all this on a w2k3 terminal server so I can not use TweakUI
from the Powertoys for Windows XP.

Thanks in advance...