Word 2007 Office Button - New Configuration

[papacoug]

Something got glitched in my Office 2007 and I'm trying to get back to the
original setup. When clicking "New" to open up a blank doc or template, I no
longer get the standard Office 2007 window. Instead, I get the older Word
Template window. I'd like to get back to the new version.

You can see an image of what I want here ->
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37929462@N05/3491051905/

What I see is here ->
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37929462@N05/3491051915/

This same effect also happens in all my other Office documents - Excel,
PowerPoint, etc.

Any help is greatly appreciated. If we can't figure this out, we're going
to try a complete Office 2007 uninstall, followed by a registry cleaning, and
then a reinstall.

 

[Tony Jollans]

There is a registry setting that controls this: Look in
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General for
UseOffice2003NewDocumentDialog. If it has a value of 1, the old dialog is
used. if it has a value of 0 (or does not exist) the new dialog is used.
Assuming you find it, either change its value to zero, or just delete it.

 

[papacoug]

I looked for that registry key but didn't find it. We did a complete
uninstall of Office including a registry cleaning to remove all keys and then
reinstalled it. The same issue is still there.

Any other thoughts on where this setting might lie?

Jim

 

[Tony Jollans]

Sorry - that's the only way I know to control it. I suppose it could be set
in a policy (HKLM\Software\Policies\microsoft\etc.) if you're in a corporate
environment.

 

[papacoug]

Found something that works:

There was a registry key in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Internet
UseOnlineContent. It had a setting of 2. I went and set it to 1 and that
fixed the problem.

I was kind of led here by an Microsoft’s Knowledge Base article. You can
see it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953474

 

[Tony Jollans]

Glad you got it fixed, and thank you for coming back and saying how.