Bizarre new Word document

[Guest]

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

 

[Graham Mayor]

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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