How to create a new WordPad document?

[soybean]

Right clicking in a Windows Explorer window and selecting New, Text Document, will create a file named New Text Document.txt.  But, that is not WordPad; that procedure does not involve WordPad.  The default file format for WordPad files is .rtf (Rich Text Format).

[hey101]

Which is what hes wanting to accomplish. Instead of a txt he wants an rtf file. when he right clicks and selects wordpad.

[soybean]

And, he will have an rtf file as soon as he saves a new document in the default, i.e. rtf, format.

[hey101]

I dont think you get it.

For example when I right click and select new -> new text document, it automatically places a blank text document where I right clicked.

He wants to do the same except with an rtf file. Like he wants to right click -> new -> wordpad document and have it automatically place a black rtf file where he right clicked. He does not want it to open up wordpad. He wants it to automatically place a blank rtf file where he right clicked.

If you still dont get it then I will have to make a video.

[soybean]

Well, if that's what he wants, I think he's not going to get it.  It's not a normal function in Windows, so it would have to be some modification or installation of an add-on to Windows Explorer.  Besides, what's the point of creating a blank rtf document that way?  It would just be an empty document.  What's the point? 

[hey101]

Im not sure but I think thats what he wants. I see no point in it myself. But then again i see no point in half the crap in windows.

[Shadow Vegan]

Sorry I didn't post sooner, been busy and kinda forgot about this. Hey101 is correct... I want to be able to create a blank document by right clicking and going to new. That way it is already in the location I want if I am in that location. As in, create a blank document instead of opening the program. My desktop which doesn't work anymore had that option, but my new laptop doesn't. My desktop had XP and my laptop has Vista (planning to switch to XP but haven't gotten a hold of XP yet).

-SV

[soybean]

OK, so you want to be able to create a blank rtf document right clicking in an Explorer window.  I have both Windows Vista and Windows XP, and neither does this.  The option to create a blank Text Document is there but not a blank rtf document.  And, again, what's the point?  If you want to put some content in the blank rtf document, you still need to open it in WordPad.  So, I see nothing whatsoever gained by being able to create a blank rtf file via the right click menu. 

If you want a quick way to open WordPad, then put a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar.

[hey101]

well then whats the point of creating a blank txt file? it would be the same as creating a blank rtf file. Can someone just help him out instead of just saying why would you want to do that?

My suggestion would be to probe the registry and see how it creates a txt file. Then maybe, you could copy all of that out and edit an extension and have a blank rtf file. Now since i have had no experience whatsoever in the registry then i doubt what I just said will work.

[soybean]

[hey101]

wow can you just answer the guy?

[soybean]

hey101, I've already answered.  Look, sometimes people get notiions in their head that are illogical, that are ill conceived.  This notion of creating a blank rtf file via right click is one of those notions.  So, getting the person to see that makes more sense than pursuing an actual technique for the illogical idea.

As I've said, there's nothing to be gained from such a capability.  He has yet to provide a logical reason for wanting to do this.

[BC_Programmer]

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regedit. navigate to:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rtf\shellnew

if keys do not exist on the way- create them.

Set the "default" value to "Word.Document.1"

create a new "String" data value. Name it "Data" and give it the contents:

Code: [Select]

{\rtf1}


Now your "New" submenu should contain "New Wordpad document"... (at least it does here )

[Dias de verano]

How else would you create a WordPad document?  That's the normal prcoedure for doing it.   

Someone who's never right clicked in a folder...

[soybean]

Someone who's never right clicked in a folder...

  What are you saying?  I've right clicked in a folder many times.