If you right click the desktop and create a 'new document' what you create
is not a Word document but an empty file with a doc or docx suffix. What the
point of this would be I haven't a clue.
If you create an empty file from Word it is not an empty file but contains
all the relevant available formatting information.
You can verify this by examining the files with a hex editor.
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Melotte wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> Could someone tell me why, with W2007 (but it was the same with the
> previous versions) two new, blank, documents are different.
> Create a new doc via Word, you get a blank page based on your
> normal.dotm; now, create a new doc via a right click on the desktop
> or in the explorer (right click /new / word) you get something
> different.
>
> Can I suggest a little exercise ?
> 1. Get into Word 2007, create a new document, place it on the
> desktop. Il's called Doc1. Zip it.
> 2. Right cick the destop or the explorer/ new / Word document / call
> it Doc2, place it on the desktop. Zip it.
> 3. Delete Doc1 & 2, just keep the two compressed folders.
> 4. Extract the 2 compressed files, and see what happens...
> Then you will maybe understand why there may be some sort of a bug
> somewhere. Kind regards
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