Suggestion: Creating Excel workbook for current version

[Maximus]

Mr. Christian Ghisler

Now when I create Excel workbook with Context menu->New->(...).xls I get workbook 5.0/95
I have MS Office 2003 installed and I want to get workbook for current Excel version.
I fond this thread

TC should take the excel sheet from the templates directory. Unfortunately it's not documented where Explorer looks for the template files, so there seem to be multiple possibilities.

I think you can make creating workbook for current Excel version in the next way (Samples in code tags for Office 2003):
1. Define current version sheet - default key value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls]
@="Excel.Sheet.8"

2. Look in the Excel.Sheet.X\ShellNew:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xls\Excel.Sheet.8\ShellNew]
"FileName"="excel9.xls"

3. And finally run file WINDOWS\SHELLNEW\EXCELX.xls:

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d:\WINDOWS\SHELLNEW\EXCEL9.XLS 

[ghisler(Author)]

Thanks, I will check whether that helps.